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Robert Higgs, né le 1er février 1944, est chercheur en sciences politique pour le think tank libertarien américain The Independent Institute. Il est également rédacteur en chef du journal trimestriel de l'organisme, The Independent Review. Il a obtenu son doctorat (Ph.D) en économie à l'université Johns Hopkins. Il a enseigné à l'université de Washington, à Lafayette College, à l'université de Seattle et à l'université d'économie de Prague.
Bibliographie
De 1976 à 1979
- 1976, “The Boll Weevil, The Cotton Economy, and Black Migration, 1910-1930.” Agricultural History (April) 335-50
- 1977,
- a. Firm-Specific Evidence on Racial Wage Differentials and Workforce Segregation, American Economic Review (March) 236-45
- b. Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy, 1865-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
de 1980 à 1989
- 1980, “Carter’s Wage-Price Guidelines: A Review of the First Year.” Policy Review 11 (Winter)
- 1982,
- a. Legally Induced Technical Regress in the Washington Salmon Fishery, Research in Economics History 7: 55–86
- b. avec Lee Alston, Contractual Mix in Southern Agriculture Since the Civil War: Hypotheses and Tests, Journal of Economic History, Vol 42, n°2, pp327-353
- 1983, “Where Figures Fail: Measuring the Growth of Big Government,” Ideas on Liberty, March
- 1985, “Crisis, Bigger Government, and Ideological Change: Two Hypotheses on the Ratchet Phenomenon,” Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 22
- 1986, “To Deal with a Crisis: Government Program or Free Market?”, Ideas on Liberty, September 1986.
- 1987,
- a. Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government. New York: Oxford University Press
- b. In the Name of Emergency, Reason, July
- c. avec Charlotte Twight, Economic Warfare and Private Property Rights: Recent Episodes and Their Constitutionality, Journal of Private Enterprise, Fall
- d. avec Charlotte Twight, “National Emergency and the Erosion of Private Property Rights,” Cato Journal, Winter
- e. avec Charlotte Twight, Economic Warfare Hurts Us More Than Them, The Free Market, Novembre, p6
- f. "Identity and Cooperation: A Comment on Sen's Alternative Program", Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Spring, pp140-142
- 1988,
- a. Crisis and Quasi-Corporatist Policy-Making: The U.S. Case in Historical Perspective, The World & I, November
- b. Hard Coals Make Bad Law: Congressional Parochialism Versus National Defense, Cato Journal, Spring/Summer
- c. How our Economic Constitution Has Deteriorated, The Free Market, Janvier, pp1,8
- d. "Can the Constitution Protect Private Property Rights During National Emergencies?", In: James Gwartney et Richard Wagner, dir., "Public Choice and Constitutional Economics", Greenwich, CT: JAI, pp369-386
- 1989, “Beware the Pork-Hawk: In Pursuit of Reelection, Congress Sells Out the Nation’s Defense,” Reason, June
De 1990 à 1994
- 1990, ed, Arms, Politics, and the Economy: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. New York: Holmes & Meier for The Independent Institute
- 1991,
- a. Some Other Costs of War, The Free Market, March
- b. Individual Rights: The Crumbling Foundation of American Government, The Freeman, Octobre
- c. “A Closer Look at the Debt and Deficit”, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, January
- 1992, “Wartime Prosperity? A Reassessment of the U.S. Economy in the 1940s,” The Journal of Economic History, Vol 52, n°1, March, pp41-60
- 1993,
- a. avec Anthony Kilduff, “Public Opinion: A Powerful Predictor of U.S. Defense Spending,” Defence Economics, Vol 4, pp227–238
- b. Private Profit, Public Risk: Institutional Antecedents of the Modern Military Procurement System in the Rearmament Program of 1940–1941, In: G. T. Mills et H. Rockoff, dir., The Sinews of War: Essays on the Economic History of World War II, Ames: Iowa State University Press
- 1994,
- a. The Cold War Economy: Opportunity Costs, Ideology, and the Politics of Crisis, Explorations in Economic History, July
- b. Nineteen Neglected Consequences of Income Redistribution, The Freeman, December
- c. Banning a risky product cannot improve any consumer's welfare (properly understood), with applications to FDA testing requirements, The Review of Austrian Economics, 7 (2), pp3-20
De 1995 à 1999
- 1995,
- a. World War II and the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex,” Freedom Daily, May
- b. How FDR Made the Depression Worse, The Free Market, March
- c. The Myth of ‘Failed’ Policies,” The Free Market, March
- d. Murray Rothbard (1926-1995), In: Lew Rockwell, Dir., Murray N. Rothbard: In Memoriam Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute
- e. "Austrian Economics and the New Economic History", Austrian Economics Newsletter, Summer, pp2-3
- f. dir., Hazardous to Our Health? FDA Regulation of Health Care Products, Oakland, Calif.: Independent Institute
- g. commentaire du livre de Edmund A. Opitz, dir., Leviathan at War, The Freeman, December, Vol 45, n°12
- 1996,
- a. avec Charlotte Twight, “National Emergency and Private Property Rights: Historical Relations and Present Conditions”, Journal of Private Enterprise, Fall
- b. Etceteras..., The Independent Review, Vol 1, n°1, summer
- c. The Welfare State: Promising Protection in an Age of Anxiety, The Freeman, May, Vol 46, n°5
- 1997,
- a. Regime Uncertainty: Why the Great Depression Lasted So Long and Why Prosperity Resumed after the War, The Independent Review, Vol I, n°4, Spring, pp561-590
- b. Fifty Years of the Mont Pelerin Society, The Independent Review, Vol 1, n°4, spring
- c. Bolingbroke, Nixon, and the Rest of Them, The Independent Review, Vol 2, n°1, Summer
- d. Death and Taxes, The Independent Review, Vol 2, n°2, Fall
- 1998,
- a. The Mythology of Roosevelt and the New Deal, The Freeman, September, Vol 48, n°9
- b. Puritanism, Paternalism, and Power, The Independent Review, Vol 2, n°3, Winter
- c. A Tale of Two Labor Markets, The Independent Review, Vol 2, n°4, Spring
- 1999,
- a. How War Amplified Federal Power in the Twentieth Century, The Freeman, July
- b. War and Leviathan in Twentieth-Century America: Conscription as the Keystone, In: John V. Denson, dir., The Costs of War: America’s Pyrrhic Victories, Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute
- c. From Central Planning to the Market: The American Transition, 1945-1947, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 59, n°3, September
- d. On Ackerman’s Justification of Irregular Constitutional Change: Is Any Vice You Get Away With a Virtue?, Constitutional Political Economy, Vol 10, November, pp375–383
De 2000 à 2004
- 2001, “The Cold War is Over, but U.S. Preparation for It Continues,” The Independent Review, Vol. VI, No. 2 (Fall 2001), pp. 287-305
- 2002,
- a. “The Cold War: Too Good a Deal to Give Up.” Oakland, Calif.: The Independent Institute
- b. “The Government Needs to Get Its Own Accounting House in Order.” Oakland, Calif.: The Independent Institute, July 9
- c. “U.S. National Security: Illusions versus Realities.” Oakland, Calif.: The Independent Institute, June 30
- 2003,
- a. The Myth of U.S. Prosperity during World War II, The Freeman, January
- b. Wartime Socialization of Investment: A Reassessment of U.S. Capital Formation in the 1940s, Working Paper No. 45. Oakland, Calif.: The Independent Institute, February
- c. Free Enterprise and War, a Dangerous Liaison, Oakland, Calif.: The Independent Institute, January 22
- 2004,
- a. Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society, Oakland, CA: The Independent Institute
- b. Great Presidents?, In: Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society, Oakland, Calif.: The Independent Institute, pp53–56
De 2005 à 2009
- 2005,
- a. avec Carl P. Close, dir., Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy, Oakland, CA: The Independent Institute
- b. avec Carl P. Close, Introduction, In: Carl P. Close et Robert Higgs, dir., Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy, Oakland, CA: The Independent Institute, pp1-26
- b. Fear: The Foundation of Every Government’s Power, The Independent Review, Vol 10, n°3, winter, pp447–466
- 2006,
- a. Regime Uncertainty: Why the Great Depression Lasted So Long and Why Prosperity Resumed After the War, In: Depression, War, and Cold War, New York: Oxford University Press
- b. avec Anthony Kilduff, Public Opinion: A Powerful Predictor of U.S. Defense Spending, In: Robert Higgs, dir., Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy, New York: Oxford University Press, pp195–207
- c. Politická ekonomie strachu (Political Economy of Fear), Alfa Publishing, (en tchèque)
- 2009,
- a. Democracy and Faits Accomplis, In: Jörg Guido Hülsmann et Stephan Kinsella, dir., Property, Freedom and Society. Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Auburn: Ludwig von Mises Institute, ISBN 978-1-933550-52-7, pp249-262
- b. The Two-Price System: U.S. Rationing During World War II. Price Controls and Rationing Led to Law-Breaking and Black Markets, The Freeman, May, Vol 59, n°4
- c. Commentaire du livre de Patrick J. Buchanan, "Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”", The Freeman, July/August, Vol 59, n°6
- d. The Rise of Big Business and the Growth of Government, The Freeman, Septembre, Vol 59, n°7
Depuis 2010
Littérature secondaire
- 2009, Christopher Coyne, "The politics and economics of global interventionism", commentaire du livre de Robert Higgs et Carl P. Close, dir., "Opposing the Crusader State", The Review of Austrian Economics, Vol 22, n°2, June, pp181-191
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