Episode 109: Taking a Stand (with Robert Higgs)
Channel: Libertarianism.org
Date: 2015-11-20

Robert Higgs joins us this week to share a few of his reflections on individual liberty, economics, war and peace, and the role of the state in human affairs.

Show Notes and Further Reading

Higgs's new book, Taking a Stand: Reflections on Life, Liberty, and the Economy (2015).
http://www.amazon.com/Taking-Stand-Reflections-Liberty-Economy/dp/1598132040

Higgs’s classic work on how government has grown, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (1987).
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1598131117/

We also talk about Higgs’s Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American economy 1865-1914 (1977).
http://www.amazon.com/Competition-Coercion-American-economy-1865-1914/dp/0521088402/

Higgs mentions a few books by C. Wright Mills: The Power Elite (1956) and The Sociological Imagination (1959).
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Elite-C-Wright-Mills/dp/0195133544/
http://www.amazon.com/Sociological-Imagination-C-Wright-Mills/dp/0195133730/

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