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.
War and Leviathan in Twentieth-Century America
Conscription as the Keystone
Robert Higgs | April 1, 1996
World War II and the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
Robert Higgs | May 1, 1995
Nineteen Neglected Consequences of Income Redistribution
Robert Higgs | December 5, 1994
Property Rights vs. Environmental Ruin
David J. Theroux | August 1, 1994
The Cold War Economy
Opportunity Costs, Ideology, and the Politics of Crisis
Robert Higgs | July 1, 1994
High-Tech Prophet Sees Chips Driving Economy’s Expansion
Arthur M. Louis | February 25, 1994
Rationing Health Care
Price Controls Are Hazardous to Our Health
David J. Theroux, Simon Rottenberg | February 1, 1994
Public Opinion: A Powerful Predictor of U.S. Defense Spending
Robert Higgs, Anthony Kilduff | October 1, 1993
Richard Cobden: Creator of the Free Market
John Chodes | March 1, 1993
The Common Law Solution to Water Pollution
The Path Not Taken
Roger E. Meiners, Bruce Yandle | April 1, 1992
Profits of U.S. Defense Contractors
Robert Higgs | March 13, 1992
Wartime Prosperity? A Reassessment of the U.S. Economy in the 1940s
Robert Higgs | March 1, 1992
Eighteen Problematic Propositions in the Analysis of the Growth of Government
Robert Higgs | January 1, 1991
Agriculture in Bulgaria
Carl A. Pescosolido, Jr., Peter J. Hill | October 1, 1990
The Environment in Bulgaria
Peter J. Hill | October 1, 1990
Beware the Pork-Hawk: In Pursuit of Reelection, Congress Sells Out the Nation’s Defense
Robert Higgs | June 1, 1989
“The Arms of All The People Should Be Taken Away”
Stephen P. Halbrook | January 1, 1989
Do Legislators’ Votes Reflect Constituency Preference?
A Simple Way to Evaluate the Senate
Robert Higgs | January 1, 1989
Crisis and Quasi-Corporatist Policy-Making: The U.S. Case in Historical Perspective
Robert Higgs | November 1, 1988
Hard Coals Make Bad Law: Congressional Parochialism Versus National Defense
Robert Higgs | March 1, 1988
Economic Warfare and Private Property Rights
Recent Episodes and their Constitutionality
Robert Higgs, Charlotte Twight | September 1, 1987
National Emergency and the Erosion of Private Property Rights
Charlotte Twight, Robert Higgs | January 1, 1987
National Emergency and Private Property Rights
Historical Relations and Present Conditions
Robert Higgs, Charlotte Twight | September 1, 1986
Crisis, Bigger Government, and Ideological Change
Two Hypotheses on the Ratchet Phenomenon
Robert Higgs | January 1, 1985
The Dutch-American Guerrillas of the American Revolution
William F. Marina | May 1, 1983
