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	History Seminar with Robert Higgs
		Robert Higgs, editor of The Independent Review, is the author of the book Crisis and Leviathan, a survey of the episodic growth of the federal government in periods of war and economic crisis.
		His "ratchet" theory of the expansion of power provides a model for understanding the current policy environment in which the government is using war and the threat of terrorism to justify its assaults on the personal and economic liberties of Americans.
		During his stay at the Mises Institute, Professor Higgs will present a series of ten formal lectures on topics of American history that examine the role of crisis, emergency management, and the military in the emergence of the Leviathan state and diminution of liberty.
	www.mises.org /upcomingstory.aspx?control=52 (334 words)

	Hoover Institution - Uncommon Knowledge - ENEMIES OF THE STATE: Why the U.S. Is Hated
		Robert Higgs: The presence of the United States troops in Saudi Arabia, Osama declares to be one of his chief grievances, along with the U.S. policy toward Palestine and the U.S. policy toward Iraq.
		Robert Higgs: There are interests who have influence with the government who do care about what goes on in Afghanistan and they have been caring for a number of years before these maniacs ran these airplanes into the buildings.
		Robert Higgs: In my mind what is genuinely unique about America is the ideal of creating liberty--a free society where people would be able to make their own way without interference whether cultural or especially interference from the powers of government.
	www.hoover.org /publications/uk/2994056.html (4198 words)

	The Cellar - Why do they hate us?
		Robert Higgs: The presence of the United States troops in Saudi Arabia, Osama declares to be one of his chief grievances, along with the U.S. policy toward Palestine and the U.S. policy toward Iraq.
		Robert Higgs: There are interests who have influence with the government who do care about what goes on in Afghanistan and they have been caring for a number of years before these maniacs ran these airplanes into the buildings.
		Robert Higgs: In my mind what is genuinely unique about America is the ideal of creating liberty--a free society where people would be able to make their own way without interference whether cultural or especially interference from the powers of government.
	cellar.org /showthread.php?t=1875 (4204 words)

	Robert Higgs, Schema-Root news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institute's quarterly journal The Independent Review.
		Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan and many other books on American militarism, estimates that in 2002 such interest payments amounted to $138.7...
		Robert Higgs, a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, is a depressing fellow.
	schema-root.org /people/career/authors/robert_higgs (586 words)

	BSEE - Building Services and Environmental Engineer: Robert Higgs awarded OBE
		HVCA director Robert Higgs has been appointed an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) in the New Years Honours list, in recognition of his services to the environment.
		Robert Higgs has been a member of the staff of HVCA for 32 years, and was appointed its director in July 1989.
		Robert said: "I am delighted to have been chosen for this honour, which I believe reflects the significant contribution to the building engineering services industry made by the HVCA over many years.
	www.bsee.co.uk /news/fullstory.php/aid/3587/Robert_Higgs_awarded_OBE.html (329 words)

	TAKING LIBERTIES: Civil Liberties and National Security (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert Higgs: I mean to say that the protections that people believe they have from the constitution, particularly from the Bill of Rights, will be disregarded during crisis periods and if the crisis is permanent, then those protections will be permanently disregarded.
		Robert Higgs: And from that time forward, because there's no real threat of secession, the federal government is entrained to become the leviathan that it eventually becomes in the Twentieth Century.
		Robert Higgs: I believe five years from now we will be much closer to living in a police state in which everybody is under constant surveillance by government agents and our liberties will have been diminished significantly.
	www.uncommonknowledge.org /700/701.html (3902 words)

	Book Review: Against Leviathan by Robert Higgs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Higgs convincingly argues that the measures government takes to make life better actually make it worse, and that the growth of government is inevitable for generations to come.
		Higgs provides little hope for relief in the near future, for although "no society can persist if everybody is a predator and nobody is the prey…the ultimate limit is so remote that it affords little promise of binding the further growth of government in the next few decades."
		Higgs' argument against government data collection may seem like a minor issue in comparison to some of the other topics he confronts, such as the Civil War, the welfare state, and the prison system.
	www.townhall.com /bookclub/higgs.html (799 words)

	Enemy of the State
		That nature, according to Higgs, was adumbrated long before Nixon by the words of Lord Bolingbroke, who wrote of his own political fortunes, “we came to court in the same dispositions that all parties have done...
		The figures Higgs cites indicate that 40 to 50 percent of all prescriptions, and a higher percentage of those for children and cancer patients, are for “off label” uses.
		Higgs is often at his best engaging the work of other scholars, whether he’s sharpening his thoughts about ideology against the whetstone of Aileen Kraditor’s book The Radical Persuasion or debunking the reheated socialism of Third Way guru Anthony Giddens.
	www.amconmag.com /2005_05_09/article1.html (1594 words)

	Robert Higgs: Archives
		Robert Higgs, author of Resurgence of the Warfare State, on its economic and military facets.
		Robert Higgs among the respectables in the heartland.
		Robert Higgs on the federal airport farce and the traveling sheep.
	www.lewrockwell.com /higgs/higgs-arch.html (313 words)

	BLUE: Book Archive - RESURGENCE OF THE WARFARE STATE: The Crisis Since 9/11, by Robert Higgs
		In contrast, Robert Higgs warned that likely reactions would primarily provide government and business interests the opportunity to enrich themselves at the expense of the public's wealth, lives, and liberties in the U.S. and around the world.
		No aspect of the "war on terror" is overlooked as Dr. Higgs critically looks at the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, airport security, the politics and propaganda of war, civilian and military deaths, government defense and non-defense spending, civil and economic liberties, and much more.
		Robert Higgs is a Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institute's quarterly journal, The Independent Review.
	www.bluegreenearth.us /archive/reviews/2006/higgs-1-2006.html (1928 words)

	[LPPa Discussion] FW: C-SPAN to air Robert Higgs on AGAINST LEVIATHAN
		Higgs combines an economist's analytical scrutiny, an historian's respect for the facts, and a refusal to accept the standard excuses and cruelties of government officialdom.
		Higgs exposes the fallacies and lies used by politicians and statist intellectuals to justify big government.
		With forensic flair and lucidity, Higgs demonstrates why these received ideas are bunk and why he is a master of swimming against the tide." -- STEVE H. HANKE, Professor of Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University "In an age of cowards and trimmers, Robert Higgs is a gutsy, passionate, and learned defender of liberty.
	www.lppa.org /pipermail/discussion_lppa.org/2004-December/001806.html (857 words)

	WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Angela Hach, Robert Higgs - New York Times
		Angela Pamela Hach, the daughter of Lilo Blumenthal of Diez, Germany, and Maciek Rybczynski of Kaiserslautern, Germany, was married yesterday to Robert Linus Higgs, the son of Shelby and John Higgs of Richmond, Va. The Rev. Eidan Cannon performed the ceremony at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Peebles, Scotland.
		Higgs, who is 32 and who has been known by her mother's maiden name, is a marketing manager in Hawthorne, N.Y., for microscope products made by Carl Zeiss, the German optics company.
		Higgs, 31, is a sales assistant at Lehman Brothers, the New York investment bank.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9407E0DE1F38F935A35753C1A9649C8B63 (138 words)

	Amazon.com: Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society: Books: Robert Higgs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Higgs explains why this is so, by showing us the historical facts, the rich and widely available evidence of a growing and ravenous state, addicted to an all-it-can-eat diet of American national wealth, productivity and citizens, and the actions of the three prolific cooks in the kitchen - the judiciary, the legislature, and the executive.
		Higgs points out that the Supreme Court has upheld most of emergency powers assumed by the state in post-hoc reviews, and he explains why in a way that is both disturbing and depressing.
		Higgs exposes that for the sad joke that it is. In reality the FDA had killed many more people than they've ever saved.
	www.amazon.com /Against-Leviathan-Government-Power-Society/dp/0945999968 (3243 words)

	Higgs, Against Leviathan, Robert Higgs, Against Leviathan, Higgs - buchausgabe.de
		In a wide-ranging analysis of this Leviathan’s various aspects, Robert Higgs finds it to be for the most part wasteful, destructive, and vicious-an insult to every genuinely humane sentiment and ideal-and he concludes that Edmund Burke was right when he declared that “the thing itself is the abuse.”
		The most renowned of all was, and remains, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who continues to serve as a model for ambitious and unscrupulous aspirants to the presidency.
		Higgs presents evidence that contradicts the thesis that the growth of government has been checked in the economically advanced countries.
	www.buchausgabe.de /shoproot/633item.html (1058 words)

	Book Review -- Against Leviathan
		Higgs is the author of Crisis and Leviathan, which explored how crises, particularly wars, encouraged the growth of state power.
		After all, Higgs writes, greater equality would be achieved by raising the death rates of older Americans; lowering fertility rates so there are fewer babies; forcing housewives to work outside the home; moving people into new jobs every year, reducing their productivity; encouraging widespread theft; eliminating education and training; and vastly shortening the work week.
		Higgs unsurprisingly aims his sharpest arrows at the bureaucrats and politicians determined to use government to control the rest of us.
	www.fff.org /freedom/fd0505g.asp (1292 words)

	Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11 - Robert Higgs - Product Details - USA :: ttgapers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Higgs was prophetic on this one, as www.ImpeachBlair.org uncovered the false information that Bush's British bosses fed him to give credence to his unjust invasion plans.
		Higgs, an economic historian who is Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and editor of their superb journal, The Independent Review, briefly explains the themes of his earlier books, Crisis and Leviathan (1987) and Against Leviathan (2004).
		What we know, thanks to Higgs' lucid presentation and analysis, is that national crises in American lead to bigger, more invasive, and more hubristic government, the kind that doesn't go away after the crisis fades.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-0945999569-locale-us.html (3819 words)

	The American Economy, 1935-47: Assessing Robert Higgs’ Pioneering Analysis of Government Policy: Events: The ...
		This special session at the 1999 meeting of the Southern Economic Association focuses on Robert Higgs’s three papers on the impact of government policies during the New Deal and World War II period of American history.
		In this work, Dr. Higgs shows how government policies during the latter half of the 1930s prolonged the Great Depression, with its massive economic hardship, unemployment, bankruptcies, and waste of economic resources.
		Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow in Political Economy, The Independent Institute.
	www.independent.org /events/detail.asp?eventID=35 (417 words)

	02/01/03 - Paul Craig Roberts interviews Robert Higgs on War and Liberty
		Paul Craig Roberts interviews Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and author of Crisis and Leviathan, a study of how war and crisis lead to the growth of government and the decline in liberty, about the unintended consequences of a possible American invasion of Iraq.
		Robert Higgs: I oppose it on both moral and practical grounds.
		Paul Craig Roberts is the author with Lawrence M. Stratton of The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice.
	www.vdare.com /roberts/interview.htm (882 words)

	Fear: The Foundation of Every Government's Power - Robert Higgs - MensNewsDaily.com™
		This same factor helps to explain the drumbeat of fears pounded out by the mass media: besides serving their own interests in capturing an audience, they buy insurance against government punishment by playing along with whatever program of fear-mongering the government is conducting currently.
		True government employment is much greater than officially reported [Light 1999; Higgs 2005a].) Defense contractors, of course, have long devoted themselves to stoking fears of enemies big and small around the globe who allegedly seek to crush our way of life at the earliest opportunity.
		This fear need not be fear of the government itself and indeed may be fear of the danger from which the tyrant purports to protect the people.
	www.mensnewsdaily.com /archive/h/higgs/2005/higgs051705.htm (3361 words)

	Robert Higgs - Author of Bullying: So What Have I Done To You? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert is in great demand on the educational seminar circuit, plays an active role working for Kidscape as an anti-bullying assertiveness trainer and is repeatedly booked, sometimes months in advance, to teach at schools across the country.
		I caught up with Robert so he could tell his story and hopefully give you an insight into his life to educate and inspire you into changing the life you might have at the moment.
		Robert Higgs can be contacted via his e-mail address; roberthiggs77@hotmail.com for seminars at schools, colleges and Universities.
	www.roberthiggs.co.uk /maiprinter.htm (9718 words)

	Amazon.com: Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11: Books: Robert Higgs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The first set of chapters in Resurgence draws on the wisdom of James Madison, who said, "...of all the enemies of liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded....No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." Of course, preserving universal "freedom" is repeatedly voiced by the White House.
		This stuff is downright frightening, and as the book progresses from the programmatic and systemic realities that serve as pylons for the warfare state, he explores the philosophy and attitudes that inform the current warfare state administration, and the tragic and deadly spawn of these philosophies and attitudes.
		Higgs writes poignantly here about the crimes in Iraq that go unreported in the American media, and in a few invaluable pages the reader is left with a striking sense of the magnitude of pain and agony we have inflicted on average Iraqis.
	www.amazon.com /Resurgence-Warfare-State-Crisis-Since/dp/0945999569 (4192 words)

	Advocates for Self-Government - Libertarian Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		f Robert Higgs had written only one book, the magisterial Crisis and Leviathan, his place would be forever secure in the libertarian firmament.
		In the 1987 book, Higgs makes the case -- and documents it with countless examples -- that government power always grows in response to crises (real, imagined, or exaggerated) such as war and economic downturns.
		In addition to Crisis and Leviathan, Higgs is the author of The Transformation of the American Economy 1865-1914 (1971) and Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy, 1865-1914 (1977).
	www.theadvocates.org /celebrities/robert-higgs.html (678 words)

	America Vulnerable to Military Adventurism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But perhaps that would have been a good thing, suggests Robert Higgs, senior fellow at the Independent Institute and editor of THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW, in a new op-ed.
		Higgs suggests that, as it is, American political culture is too vulnerable to military adventurism initiated by the commander in chief.
		Consider, for example, the popular view (at least in high school civics classes) that elections are an effective check on presidential military excesses -- i.e., that a president who abuses his authority is discouraged from doing so because he won't get reelected.
	www.annoy.com /features/doc.html?DocumentID=100529 (357 words)

	Conservative Book Service: Crisis and Leviathan by Higgs, Robert
		In Crisis and Leviathan, Robert Higgs shows that the main reason lies in government's responses to national "crises" (real or fabricated), including economic upheavals (e.g., the Great Depression) and especially war (e.g., World Wars I and II, the Cold War).
		The result, Higgs demonstrates, is ever increasing government power which endures long after each crisis has passed, impinging on both civil and economic liberties and fostering extensive corporate welfare and pork.
		Higgs, a senior fellow at the Independent Institute and the editor of The Independent Review, also explains why, as government power grows, it achieves a form of autonomy, making it ever more difficult to decrease its size and scope, and to resist its further efforts to increase its reach.
	www.conservativebookservice.com /BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c6337 (742 words)

	Consequences Of War With Iraq An Interview With Robert Higgs
		Paul Craig Roberts interviewed Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and author of "Crisis and Leviathan," a study of how war and crisis lead to the growth of government and the decline in liberty, about the unintended consequences of an American invasion of Iraq.
		Robert Higgs: I oppose it on both moral and practical grounds.
		Roberts' latest book, "The Tyranny of Good Intentions," has been published by Prima Publishers.
	www.rense.com /general34/inns.htm (812 words)

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		Robert Higgs, a political economist who taught at several universities and who now edits the Independent Review, says "There's no libertarian moment now.
		Higgs spent decades documenting this process of "crisis opportunism." His 1987 classic, "Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government," lays out what most of us know intuitively.
		Robert J. Cihak, M.D., is past president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /0103/medicine.men012403.asp (1257 words)

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