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Lecture presented by Robert Higgs at the Mises Circle in Houston: "Great Economic Myths," Saturday 29 January 2008; Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis. http://mises.org

Robert Higgs, Ph.D. is an American economist of the Austrian School and a libertarian anarchist. He currently serves as a Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the Independent Institute and is an adjunct faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. Dr. Higgs is also a regular contributor to LewRockwell.com.

His writings in economics and economic history have most often focused on the causes, means, and effects of government growth. Some of the books he has authored include, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government; Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11, and Depression, War and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy. He is also the editor of the collections, Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy; The Challenge of Liberty: Classical Liberalism Today; and Opposing the Crusader State: Alternatives to Global Interventionism.

Robert Higgs' official blog: http://blog.independent.org/author/rhiggs/

Related links:
http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=489
http://mises.org/literature.aspx?action=author&ID=369
http://mises.org/daily/author/369
http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs-arch.html

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http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC3072B78D1DF6D91

How Major U.S. Neo-imperialist Wars End
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War and Leviathan: The Trick That Works Every Time
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2F651853B1A6CA94

The Costs of the American Empire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OT11vLDyfw

The Catastrophic Impact of War on Liberty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIU5hHwWKuY

Against Leviathan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67eelZustMk

The National Security State
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hWDLAbFwSI

The New Deal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZLN8Q3lpSc

Historians, the State, and Liberty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiAcsbpDZ9E

War, Fear, and Trembling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIKS2800M-Y

The Complex Path of Ideological Change
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgu6_y96vHM

The Great Depression and the Current Recession
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIkUq1g-bbQ

Quasi-Corporatism: America's Home-Grown Fascism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mqqk0fN0OM

War and the Leviathan State
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJIfqhFGJRI

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