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Articles written by Robert Higgs in The Independent Review:

Pressure-Release Valves in Participatory Fascism
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Fall 2019
Two Worlds: Politics and Everything Else
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Winter 2018/19
Against the Whole Concept and Construction of the Balance of International Payments
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Fall 2018
Feedback and Correction in Government and the Market
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Summer 2018
Ideology and Political Divisiveness
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Spring 2018
Principal-Agent Theory and Representative Government
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Winter 2017/18
Freedom of Movement—the Sine Qua Non of Economic Prosperity and Progress
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Fall 2017
Moderation in Response to Provocation Is No Vice
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Summer 2017
First, Do No Harm
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Winter 2016/17
Can the State Enforce Virtuous Behavior?
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Fall 2016
Douglass C. North
Trailblazer
Reflections
Summer 2016
Ludwig von Mises and Dietrich von Hildebrand
Some Remarkable Parallels
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Winter 2015/16
How Big Is Government in the United States?
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Fall 2015
Gross Domestic Product—an Index of Economic Welfare or a Meaningless Metric?
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Summer 2015
Compassion—a Critical Factor for Attaining and Maintaining a Free Society
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Spring 2015
Tolstoy’s Manifesto on the State, Christian Anarchy, and Pacifism
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Winter 2014/15
Ronald Coase, Anomalous Superstar of the Economics Profession
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Fall 2014
The Fed’s Immiseration of People Who Live on Interest Earnings
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Summer 2014
The Salmon Trap
An Analogy for People’s Entrapment by the State
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Spring 2014
Worrisome Changes in U.S. Labor Force and Employment since 2007
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Winter 2013/14
The Sluggish Recovery of Real Net Domestic Private Business Investment
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Fall 2013
Real Gross Domestic Private Product, 2000–2012
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Summer 2013
Truth and Freedom in Economic Analysis and Economic Policy Making
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Winter 2012/13
Coasian Contracts in the Coeur d’Alene Mining District
Article
Fall 2012
“War Is Horrible, but . . .”
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Fall 2012
Are Questions of War and Peace Merely One Issue among Many for Libertarians?
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Fall 2011
To Fight or Not to Fight
War’s Payoffs to U.S. Leaders and to the American People
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Summer 2011
The Dangers of Samuelson’s Economic Method
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Winter 2010/11
Recession and Recovery
Six Fundamental Errors of the Current Orthodoxy
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Winter 2009/10
A Revealing Window on the U.S. Economy in Depression and War
Hours Worked, 1929–1950
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Summer 2009
Who was Edward M. House?
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Winter 2008/09
Caging the Dogs of War
How Major U.S. Neoimperialist Wars End
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Fall 2008
Military Spending/Gross Domestic Product = Nonsense for Budget Policymaking
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Summer 2008
Military-Economic Fascism
How Business Corrupts Government, and Vice Versa
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Fall 2007
Results of Still Another Fifty-Year Experiment in Political Economy
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Summer 2007
On “Winning the War”
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Summer 2006
Fear
The Foundation of Every Government’s Power
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Winter 2005/06
“Not Merely Perfidious but Ungrateful”
The U.S. Takeover of West Florida
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Fall 2005
Benefits and Costs of the U.S. Government’s War Making
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Spring 2005
Lies, Damn Lies, and Conventional Measures of the Growth of Government
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Summer 2004
Government Protects Us?
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Fall 2002
Pity the Poor Japanese
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Summer 2002
The Cold War is Over, but U.S. Preparation for It Continues
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Fall 2001
Results of Another Fifty-Year Experiment in Political Economy
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Spring 2001
Unmitigated Mercantilism
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Winter 2000/01
The So-Called Third Way
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Spring 2000
Regulatory Harmonization
A Sweet-Sounding, Dangerous Development
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Winter 1999/00
Lock ’em Up!
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Fall 1999
Escaping Leviathan?
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Summer 1999
We’re All Sick and Government Must Heal Us
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Spring 1999
A Carnival of Taxation
Article
Winter 1998/99
What Professor Stiglitz Learned in Washington
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Fall 1998
Official Economic Statistics
The Emperor’s Clothes Are Dirty
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Summer 1998
A Tale of Two Labor Markets
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Spring 1998
Puritanism, Paternalism, and Power
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Winter 1997/98
Death and Taxes
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Fall 1997
Bolingbroke, Nixon, and the Rest of Them
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Summer 1997
Regime Uncertainty
Why the Great Depression Lasted So Long and Why Prosperity Resumed after the War
Article
Spring 1997
Fifty Years of the Mont Pelerin Society
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Spring 1997
Public Choice and Political Leadership
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Winter 1996/97
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Fall 1996
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Spring 1996
Editor’s Welcome
Article
Spring 1996


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