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Taking a stand : reflections on life, liberty, and the economy / / Robert Higgs ; foreword by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano ; cover design, Denise Tsui
| Taking a stand : reflections on life, liberty, and the economy / / Robert Higgs ; foreword by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano ; cover design, Denise Tsui |
| Autore | Higgs Robert |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : Independent Institute, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (643 p.) |
| Disciplina | 320.973 |
| Collana | Independent studies in political economy Taking a stand |
| Soggetto topico |
Administrative agencies - United States - History
Bureaucracy - United States - History State, The - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-59813-205-9
1-59813-206-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part I - Politics and the State; 1 - It's who you Know; 2 - What's the Point of Demonstrating?; 3 - Partisan Politics: A Fool's Game for the Masses; 4 - Democracy's Most Critical Defect; 5 - Nothing Outside the State; 6 - Consent of the Governed?; 7 - Why this Gigantic "Intelligence" Apparatus? Follow the Money; 8 - Can the Dead (Capitalism) Be Brought Back to Life?; 9 - The Welfare State Neutralizes Potential Opponents by Making them Dependent on Government Benefits
10 - The Systematic Organization of Hatreds11 - All Men are Brothers, but All too Often they do not Act Accordingly; 12 - Once More, with Feeling: Our System is not Socialism, but Participatory Fascism; 13 - Love, Liberty, and the State; 14 - Legitimacy; 15 - Political Problems have Only One Real Solution; 16 - The Power of the State versus the Power of Love; 17 - State Power and how it Might be Undermined; 18 - All Government Policies Succeed in the long Run; 19 - Crisis of Political Authority? I Wish!; Part II - On doing Analysis in Political Economy 20 - Ten Rules for Understanding Economic Development21 - Underappreciated Aspects of the Ratchet Effect; 22 - Diagnostics and Therapeutics in Political Economy; 23 - Can the Rampaging Leviathan be Stopped or Slowed?; 24 - Higgs is Just a Pessimist; 25 - My Question for the Doomsters: Then What?; 26 - Defense Spending is Much Greater than you Think; 27 - Which End, if Any, is Near?; 28 - Communism's Persistent Pull; 29 - The Dangers of Samuelson's Economic Method; 30 - Don't Accuse Me of Blaming America when I Blame the Government; 31 - Extreme Aggregation Misleads Macroeconomists and the Fed 32 - Why do so Many People Automatically and Angrily Condemn Historical Revisionism?33 - Where should the Burden of Proof Rest?; 34 - Politics and Markets: A Highly Misleading Analogy; 35 - Social Science 101: Three Ways to Relate to Other People; 36 - Ten Fallacious Conclusions in the Dominant Ideology's Political Economy; 37 - Regime Uncertainty: Some Clarifications; 38 - Not Every Intellectual Gunman is a Hired Gun; 39 - Truth and Freedom in Economic Analysis and Economic Policymaking; 40 - Austrian Economics: The Queen of the Experimental Sciences 41 - Not All Countries are Analytically Equal42 - Creative Destruction-The Best Game in Town; 43 - Thinking is Research, Too!; Part III - Money, Debt, Interest Rates, and Prices; 44 - Macroeconomic Booms and Busts: Déjà Vu Once Again; 45 - The Continuing Puzzle of the Hyperinflation that hasn't Occurred; 46 - Money versus Monetary Base: An Elementary Yet Critical Distinction; 47 - The Euthanasia of the Saver; 48 - The Fed's Immiseration of People who Live on Interest Earnings; 49 - Extraordinary Demand to Hold Cash: The Mystery Persists; 50 - More Monetary Peculiarities of the Past Five Years 51 - A Bogus Example of Controlling Inflation with Price Controls |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461152503321 |
Higgs Robert
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| Oakland, California : , : Independent Institute, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Taking a stand : reflections on life, liberty, and the economy / / Robert Higgs ; foreword by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano ; cover design, Denise Tsui
| Taking a stand : reflections on life, liberty, and the economy / / Robert Higgs ; foreword by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano ; cover design, Denise Tsui |
| Autore | Higgs Robert |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : Independent Institute, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (643 p.) |
| Disciplina | 320.973 |
| Collana | Independent studies in political economy Taking a stand |
| Soggetto topico |
Administrative agencies - United States - History
Bureaucracy - United States - History State, The - History |
| ISBN |
1-59813-205-9
1-59813-206-7 |
| Classificazione | BUS069030BUS069000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part I - Politics and the State; 1 - It's who you Know; 2 - What's the Point of Demonstrating?; 3 - Partisan Politics: A Fool's Game for the Masses; 4 - Democracy's Most Critical Defect; 5 - Nothing Outside the State; 6 - Consent of the Governed?; 7 - Why this Gigantic "Intelligence" Apparatus? Follow the Money; 8 - Can the Dead (Capitalism) Be Brought Back to Life?; 9 - The Welfare State Neutralizes Potential Opponents by Making them Dependent on Government Benefits
10 - The Systematic Organization of Hatreds11 - All Men are Brothers, but All too Often they do not Act Accordingly; 12 - Once More, with Feeling: Our System is not Socialism, but Participatory Fascism; 13 - Love, Liberty, and the State; 14 - Legitimacy; 15 - Political Problems have Only One Real Solution; 16 - The Power of the State versus the Power of Love; 17 - State Power and how it Might be Undermined; 18 - All Government Policies Succeed in the long Run; 19 - Crisis of Political Authority? I Wish!; Part II - On doing Analysis in Political Economy 20 - Ten Rules for Understanding Economic Development21 - Underappreciated Aspects of the Ratchet Effect; 22 - Diagnostics and Therapeutics in Political Economy; 23 - Can the Rampaging Leviathan be Stopped or Slowed?; 24 - Higgs is Just a Pessimist; 25 - My Question for the Doomsters: Then What?; 26 - Defense Spending is Much Greater than you Think; 27 - Which End, if Any, is Near?; 28 - Communism's Persistent Pull; 29 - The Dangers of Samuelson's Economic Method; 30 - Don't Accuse Me of Blaming America when I Blame the Government; 31 - Extreme Aggregation Misleads Macroeconomists and the Fed 32 - Why do so Many People Automatically and Angrily Condemn Historical Revisionism?33 - Where should the Burden of Proof Rest?; 34 - Politics and Markets: A Highly Misleading Analogy; 35 - Social Science 101: Three Ways to Relate to Other People; 36 - Ten Fallacious Conclusions in the Dominant Ideology's Political Economy; 37 - Regime Uncertainty: Some Clarifications; 38 - Not Every Intellectual Gunman is a Hired Gun; 39 - Truth and Freedom in Economic Analysis and Economic Policymaking; 40 - Austrian Economics: The Queen of the Experimental Sciences 41 - Not All Countries are Analytically Equal42 - Creative Destruction-The Best Game in Town; 43 - Thinking is Research, Too!; Part III - Money, Debt, Interest Rates, and Prices; 44 - Macroeconomic Booms and Busts: Déjà Vu Once Again; 45 - The Continuing Puzzle of the Hyperinflation that hasn't Occurred; 46 - Money versus Monetary Base: An Elementary Yet Critical Distinction; 47 - The Euthanasia of the Saver; 48 - The Fed's Immiseration of People who Live on Interest Earnings; 49 - Extraordinary Demand to Hold Cash: The Mystery Persists; 50 - More Monetary Peculiarities of the Past Five Years 51 - A Bogus Example of Controlling Inflation with Price Controls |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797483303321 |
|
Higgs Robert
|
||
| Oakland, California : , : Independent Institute, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Taking a stand : reflections on life, liberty, and the economy / / Robert Higgs ; foreword by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano ; cover design, Denise Tsui
| Taking a stand : reflections on life, liberty, and the economy / / Robert Higgs ; foreword by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano ; cover design, Denise Tsui |
| Autore | Higgs Robert |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : Independent Institute, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (643 p.) |
| Disciplina | 320.973 |
| Collana | Independent studies in political economy Taking a stand |
| Soggetto topico |
Administrative agencies - United States - History
Bureaucracy - United States - History State, The - History |
| ISBN |
1-59813-205-9
1-59813-206-7 |
| Classificazione | BUS069030BUS069000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part I - Politics and the State; 1 - It's who you Know; 2 - What's the Point of Demonstrating?; 3 - Partisan Politics: A Fool's Game for the Masses; 4 - Democracy's Most Critical Defect; 5 - Nothing Outside the State; 6 - Consent of the Governed?; 7 - Why this Gigantic "Intelligence" Apparatus? Follow the Money; 8 - Can the Dead (Capitalism) Be Brought Back to Life?; 9 - The Welfare State Neutralizes Potential Opponents by Making them Dependent on Government Benefits
10 - The Systematic Organization of Hatreds11 - All Men are Brothers, but All too Often they do not Act Accordingly; 12 - Once More, with Feeling: Our System is not Socialism, but Participatory Fascism; 13 - Love, Liberty, and the State; 14 - Legitimacy; 15 - Political Problems have Only One Real Solution; 16 - The Power of the State versus the Power of Love; 17 - State Power and how it Might be Undermined; 18 - All Government Policies Succeed in the long Run; 19 - Crisis of Political Authority? I Wish!; Part II - On doing Analysis in Political Economy 20 - Ten Rules for Understanding Economic Development21 - Underappreciated Aspects of the Ratchet Effect; 22 - Diagnostics and Therapeutics in Political Economy; 23 - Can the Rampaging Leviathan be Stopped or Slowed?; 24 - Higgs is Just a Pessimist; 25 - My Question for the Doomsters: Then What?; 26 - Defense Spending is Much Greater than you Think; 27 - Which End, if Any, is Near?; 28 - Communism's Persistent Pull; 29 - The Dangers of Samuelson's Economic Method; 30 - Don't Accuse Me of Blaming America when I Blame the Government; 31 - Extreme Aggregation Misleads Macroeconomists and the Fed 32 - Why do so Many People Automatically and Angrily Condemn Historical Revisionism?33 - Where should the Burden of Proof Rest?; 34 - Politics and Markets: A Highly Misleading Analogy; 35 - Social Science 101: Three Ways to Relate to Other People; 36 - Ten Fallacious Conclusions in the Dominant Ideology's Political Economy; 37 - Regime Uncertainty: Some Clarifications; 38 - Not Every Intellectual Gunman is a Hired Gun; 39 - Truth and Freedom in Economic Analysis and Economic Policymaking; 40 - Austrian Economics: The Queen of the Experimental Sciences 41 - Not All Countries are Analytically Equal42 - Creative Destruction-The Best Game in Town; 43 - Thinking is Research, Too!; Part III - Money, Debt, Interest Rates, and Prices; 44 - Macroeconomic Booms and Busts: Déjà Vu Once Again; 45 - The Continuing Puzzle of the Hyperinflation that hasn't Occurred; 46 - Money versus Monetary Base: An Elementary Yet Critical Distinction; 47 - The Euthanasia of the Saver; 48 - The Fed's Immiseration of People who Live on Interest Earnings; 49 - Extraordinary Demand to Hold Cash: The Mystery Persists; 50 - More Monetary Peculiarities of the Past Five Years 51 - A Bogus Example of Controlling Inflation with Price Controls |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825542803321 |
|
Higgs Robert
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| Oakland, California : , : Independent Institute, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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