These articles, written by Independent Institute Research Fellows, were originally published in other publications, and are republished here. For other research articles, please see our Policy Reports, Working Papers, and The Independent Review.
Banning a Risky Product Cannot Improve Any Consumer’s Welfare (Properly Understood), with Applications to FDA Testing Requirements
Robert Higgs | February 13, 2009
A Revealing Window on the U.S. Economy in Depression and War
Hours Worked, 1929–1950
Robert Higgs | February 2, 2009
Guilty as Charged
George A. Selgin | November 7, 2008
Economic Science and the Poverty of Naturalism
C. S. Lewis’s “Argument from Reason”
David J. Theroux | July 25, 2008
The Dehumanizing Impact of Modern Thought
Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, and Their Followers
Richard Weikart | July 21, 2008
The Second Amendment Upholds an Individual Right
Amici Curiae Brief in D.C. v. Heller for 55 Senators, the Senate President, and 250 Members of the House of Representatives
Stephen P. Halbrook | March 10, 2008
If Men Were Angels
The Basic Analytics of the State versus Self-government
Robert Higgs | June 11, 2007
The Gospel According to Conservation Biology
Robert H. Nelson | June 1, 2007
St. George Tucker’s Second Amendment: Deconstructing “The True Palladium of Liberty,”
Stephen P. Halbrook | April 1, 2007
Military-Economic Fascism: How Business Corrupts Government, and Vice Versa
Robert Higgs | January 22, 2007
Nazism, the Second Amendment, and the NRA: A Reply to Professor Harcourt
Stephen P. Halbrook | December 23, 2006
From the Armistice to the Great Depression
Robert Higgs | December 1, 2006
Knowledge and Naturalism
Dallas A. Willard | May 18, 2006
Is There a Basis for Global Warming Alarm?
Richard S. Lindzen | October 21, 2005
Fear: The Foundation of Every Government’s Power
Robert Higgs | May 17, 2005
How the Western Cattlemen Created Property Rights
Robert Higgs | March 1, 2005
Homeland Security: Learning from Japan
Edward A. Olsen | November 18, 2004
The Greatest Privatization Ever
Robert Higgs | June 1, 2004
Truman’s Attempt to Seize the Steel Industry
Robert Higgs | March 1, 2004
How the Federal Government Got into the Ocean-Shipping Business
Robert Higgs | November 1, 2003
Connections Between the Austrian School of Economics and Christian Faith
A Personalist Approach
Paul A. Cleveland | September 1, 2003
Why Grover Cleveland Vetoed the Texas Seed Bill
Robert Higgs | July 1, 2003
A Tale of Two Brain Trusts
Robert Higgs | October 1, 2002
The Failure of Utilitarian Ethics in Political Economy
Paul A. Cleveland | September 1, 2002
Thank God for the Nation State?
Robert Higgs | March 15, 2002
