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The Independent Institute Robert Higgs » Articles Research Articles: 2/13/2009 - Banning a Risky Product Cannot Improve Any Consumer’s Welfare (Properly Understood), with Applications to FDA Testing Requirements 2/2/2009 - A Revealing Window on the U.S. Economy in Depression and War 6/11/2007 - If Men Were Angels: The Basic Analytics of the State versus Self-government 1/22/2007 - Military-Economic Fascism: How Business Corrupts Government, and Vice Versa 12/1/2006 - From the Armistice to the Great Depression 5/17/2005 - Fear: The Foundation of Every Government’s Power 3/1/2005 - How the Western Cattlemen Created Property Rights 6/1/2004 - The Greatest Privatization Ever 3/1/2004 - Truman’s Attempt to Seize the Steel Industry 11/1/2003 - How the Federal Government Got into the Ocean-Shipping Business 7/1/2003 - Why Grover Cleveland Vetoed the Texas Seed Bill 10/1/2002 - A Tale of Two Brain Trusts 3/15/2002 - Thank God for the Nation State? 10/17/2001 - In the Name of Emergency 10/8/2001 - World War II and the Triumph of Keynesianism 9/1/1999 - From Central Planning to the Market 7/1/1999 - How War Amplified Federal Power in the Twentieth Century 9/1/1998 - The Mythology of Roosevelt and the New Deal 4/1/1996 - War and Leviathan in Twentieth-Century America 5/1/1995 - World War II and the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex 12/5/1994 - Nineteen Neglected Consequences of Income Redistribution 7/1/1994 - The Cold War Economy 10/1/1993 - Public Opinion: A Powerful Predictor of U.S. Defense Spending 3/13/1992 - Profits of U.S. Defense Contractors 3/1/1992 - Wartime Prosperity? A Reassessment of the U.S. Economy in the 1940s 1/1/1991 - Eighteen Problematic Propositions in the Analysis of the Growth of Government 6/1/1989 - Beware the Pork-Hawk: In Pursuit of Reelection, Congress Sells Out the Nation’s Defense 1/1/1989 - Do Legislators’ Votes Reflect Constituency Preference? 11/1/1988 - Crisis and Quasi-Corporatist Policy-Making: The U.S. Case in Historical Perspective 3/1/1988 - Hard Coals Make Bad Law: Congressional Parochialism Versus National Defense 9/1/1987 - Economic Warfare and Private Property Rights 1/1/1987 - National Emergency and the Erosion of Private Property Rights 9/1/1986 - National Emergency and Private Property Rights 1/1/1985 - Crisis, Bigger Government, and Ideological Change 6/30/1982 - Legally Induced Technical Regress in the Washington Salmon Fishery 4/1/1979 - Inflation and the Destruction of the Free Market Economy