Against Leviathan [[electronic resource] ] : government power and a free society / / Robert Higgs

• Autore: Higgs Robert
• Pubblicazione: Oakland, Calif., : Independent Institute, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.973
• Soggetto topico: Power (Social sciences) - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Economic policy; United States Politics and government 20th century; United States Politics and government 2001-2009
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Articles chiefly published previously beginning in 1981.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover ; Copyright; Dedication; Contents ; Introduction ; Part I - Welfare Statism; Chapter 1: Is More Economic Equality Better? ; Chapter 2: The Welfare State: Promising Protection in an Age of Anxiety ; Chapter 3: Nineteen Neglected Consequences of Income Redistribution ; Part II - Our Glorious Leaders ; Chapter 4: The Mythology of Roosevelt and the New Deal Chapter 5: Public Choice and Political Leadership ; Chapter 6: Bolingbroke, Nixon, and the Rest of them; Chapter 7: What Professor Stiglitz Learned in Washington ; Chapter 8: Great Presidents? ; Part III - Despotism, Soft and Hard ; Chapter 9: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration: A Billy Club is not a Substitute for Eyeglasses Chapter 10: Regulatory Harmonization: A Sweet-Sounding, Dangerous Development ; Chapter 11: Puritanism, Paternalism, and Power ; Chapter 12: We're all Sick, and Government must Heal us ; Chapter 18: Death and Taxes Chapter 19: A Carnival of Taxation ; Chapter 20: Unmitigated Mercantilism ; Chapter 21: Results of a Fifty-Year Experiment in Political Economy ; Chapter 22: Results of Another Fifty-Year Experiment in Political Economy ; Chapter 23: Pity the Poor Japanese ; Part V - The Political Economy of Crisis
• Sommario/riassunto: <DIV>An unflinching critical analysis of government is contained in this work, which distills complex economic and political issues for the layperson. Combining an economist's analytical scrutiny with an historian's respect for empirical evidence, the book attacks the data on which governments base their economic management and their responses to an ongoing stream of crises. Among the topics discussed are domestic economic busts, foreign wars, welfare programs such as social security, the arts of political leadership, the intrusive efforts of governments to protect people from themselves, and
• Titolo autorizzato: Against Leviathan
• ISBN: 1-59813-089-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453812203321
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