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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

       
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Paul Krugman’s Follies and Public Sector Pension Reform with Robert Higgs
Recorded: Tuesday, June 5, 2012

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Senior Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Delusions of Power, discusses the “vulgar Keynesianism” of Paul Krugman with Martha Montelongo on Gadfly Radio.

Experts: Robert Higgs
Type: Radio
Issues: Economic History and Development (International), Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy

       
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Great Depression, Round Two? Senior Fellow Robert Higgs on The Peter Schiff Show
Recorded: Monday, November 29, 2010

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Issues: Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy

       
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Robert Higgs Interviewed: The Expanding Pork for Military Pay and Towns
Recorded: Friday, August 27, 2010

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Independent Institute Senior Fellow Robert Higgs is interviewed by Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio on the widening gap between public and private sector pay, the increasing affluence of military towns compared with others, the disappearance of traditional checks on government power, and the predation and incremental “ratchet effect” of expanding governmental powers that increase “temporarily” during wartime but never really recede.

Experts: Robert Higgs
Type: Radio
Issues: Economic History and Development (U.S.), Government Power, Labor and Employment, Terrorism and National Crises

       
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Robert Higgs on the Consequences of Leviathan-sized Government
Recorded: Thursday, July 1, 2010

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Senior Fellow Robert Higgs is interviewed here by Scott Horton on Antiwar.com Radio, warning those who long for total governmental and economic collapse to be careful what they wish for. Higgs also explains why federal spending cannot continue at the current record levels without a failure of the bond market. He further compares the military and economic over-extension of the Soviet Union prior to its collapse to the United States as a warning against rampant spending by the government.

Experts: Robert Higgs
Type: Radio
Issues: Banking and Finance, Economic History and Development (International), Economic History and Development (U.S.), Fiscal Policy/Debt, Terrorism and National Crises

       
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