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Research Articles

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.

Public Opinion: A Powerful Predictor of U.S. Defense Spending
Robert Higgs  ·  October 1, 1993
Banking and Government: An Unholy Alliance
Judy L. Shelton  ·  September 22, 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
Weapons, Technology and Legitimacy
The Second Amendment in Global Perspective
William F. Marina  ·  January 1, 1983
Legally Induced Technical Regress in the Washington Salmon Fishery
Robert Higgs  ·  June 30, 1982
Communications
Ronald Hamowy  ·  July 1, 1980
Jefferson and the Scottish Enlightenment
A Critique of Garry Wills’s Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence
Ronald Hamowy  ·  October 1, 1979
Inflation and the Destruction of the Free Market Economy
Robert Higgs  ·  April 1, 1979
The Attack on Concentration
Yale Brozen  ·  January 1, 1979


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