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Robert Higgs on Economic Intervention
Recorded: Thursday, June 21, 2012
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Senior Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Delusions of Power, talks about the history of government intervention in the economy on the Peter Schiff Radio Show via Disposable Wisdom.
Experts: Robert Higgs
Type: Radio
Issues: Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Economists
Why Are Politicians Always Trying to Scare Us?
Recorded: Thursday, December 6, 2007
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From ancient times to the present, politicians, bureaucrats, and interest groups have gained resources and control over the public by playing to people’s fears of various “crises” and by offering “solutions” that often only make problems worse.
Experts: Robert Higgs
Type: Independent Institute Event
Issues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Terrorism and National Crises
P.J. O’Rourke “On the Wealth of Nations”
Recorded: Friday, February 9, 2007
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America’s most provocative humorist, P. J. O’Rourke, has read pioneering economist Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, first published in 1776, “so we don’t have to”—and the results are as entertaining as they are enlightening.
Experts: P. J. O’Rourke
Type: Independent Institute Event
Issues: Economic Policy, Economists
