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Robert Higgs on Scott Horton Show
Recorded: Tuesday, April 2, 2013

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Senior Research Fellow Robert Higgs talks with Scott Horton about the growth of government during the war on terror, economic recession and domestic “emergencies.” Check out some of Robert Higgs’ books mentioned on the program.

Experts: Robert Higgs
Type: Radio
Issues: Bureaucracy and Government, Defense and Foreign Policy, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Political Ideology and Philosophy

       
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State, War and Economy
Recorded: Tuesday, August 28, 2012

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Senior Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Delusions of Power, is interviewed on “The Lew Rockwell Show,” about the delusions of government power and U.S. interventionism.

Experts: Robert Higgs
Type: Radio
Issues: Bureaucracy and Government, Defense and Foreign Policy, Free Market Economics, Government Power, Political Ideology and Philosophy

       
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Robert Higgs Interview on Growth of Big Brother
Recorded: Friday, July 9, 2010

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Senior Fellow Robert Higgs talks about his book, Neither Liberty nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government, on The Holistic Survival Show with Jason Hartman. Higgs sheds light on the history of institutionalized violence implemented by a bloated federal state, caused by a misguided faith in larger government to ensure a “freedom from fear”. The “Necessary and Proper Clause”? “People have been trying to loosen the bounds of the Constitution virtually from the time it was ratified to the present”, Higgs cautions.

Experts: Robert Higgs
Type: Radio
Issues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Government Power, Terrorism and National Crises

       
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The New International Arms Race in Space—And How to Avoid It
Recorded: Friday, March 7, 2008

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Did the United States test an anti-satellite weapon when it “shot down” an out-of-control spy satellite earlier this month? Or was it a precautionary measure to protect people on the ground who might have been hit with a fuel tank filled with a poisonous gas?

Experts: Peter L. Hays, Theresa Hitchens, Jeff Kueter, Mike Moore
Type: Independent Institute Event
Issues: Defense and Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Government Secrecy, History (International), History (U.S), Science, Technology

       
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Is the U.S. Now Provoking an Arms Race in Space?
Recorded: Tuesday, February 12, 2008

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The 1967 Outer Space Treaty designated space for peaceful purposes as “the province of all mankind.” Virtually all spacefaring nations now favor a new treaty to accommodate major changes in geopolitics and military technology. The United States, however, has blocked negotiations, citing potential threats to U.S. “rights, capabilities, and freedom of action.”

Experts: Mike Moore
Type: Independent Institute Event
Issues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Defense and Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, History (International), History (U.S), Nationalism, Technology, Terrorism and National Crises, Trade

       
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