Against Leviathan : government power and a free society
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Against Leviathan : government power and a free society
Independent Institute, c2004
- pbk.
Available at 1 libraries
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Articles published previously from 1981
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Is more economic equality better?
- The welfare state
- Nineteen neglected consequences of income redistribution
- The mythology of Roosevelt and the New Deal
- Public choice and political leadership
- Bolingbroke, Nixon, and the rest of them
- What Professor Stiglitz learned in Washington
- Great presidents?
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Regulatory harmonization
- Puritanism, paternalism, and power
- We're all sick, and government must heal us
- Lock 'em up!
- Government protects us?
- Coercion is not a societal constant
- Official economic statistics
- A tale of two labor markets
- Death and taxes
- A carnival of taxation
- Unmitigated mercantilism
- Results of a fifty-year experiment in political economy
- Results of another fifty-year experiment in political economy
- Pity the poor Japanese
- War and Leviathan in twentieth-century America
- Crisis and quasi-corporatist policymaking
- The normal constitution versus the crisis constitution
- The myth of war prosperity
- To deal with a crisis
- Beware the pork hawk
- The Cold War is over, but U.S. preparation for it continues
- Leviathan at bay?
- Escaping Leviathan?
- The era of big government is not over
- The bloody hinge of American history
- The rise of big business in America
- Origins of the corporate liberal state
- When ideological worlds collide
- On Ackerman's justification of irregular constitutional change
- The so-called third way
- Thank God for the nation state?
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 the mismanagement of the economy. Though focused on U.S. government actions, the book also makes revealing comparisons with similar government actions abroad and in China, Japan, and Western Europe. This book furthers the disscussions in Higgs' bestseller Crisis and Leviathan.
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