All Posts Tagged With: "Robert Higgs"
What Ended the Great Depression?
What finally ended the Great Depression? That question may be the most important in economic history. If we can answer it, we can better grasp what perpetuates economic stagnation and what cures it.
The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. From 1931 to 1940 unemployment was always in double digits. In April [...]
Where the Jobs Are
Robert Higgs, editor of The Independent Review and a Freeman columnist, has a revealing article on today’s employment and unemployment. Juicy tidbit:
Total employment peaked in 2007 at 137.6 million persons on nonfarm payrolls, fell slightly in 2008, and then dropped precipitously in 2009 to 132.0 persons, for a two-year loss of 5.6 million jobs. In [...]
More Bad Economics Reporting
Robert Higgs masterfully demolishes an AP story about Barack Obama’s alleged plan to reconstruct (!) the financial markets. Read and enjoy here.
15Jun2009 | Sheldon Richman | Comments Off | ContinuedHiggs on C-SPAN
Robert Higgs, senior fellow at the Independent Institute and a Freeman columnist, will be the subject of a three-hour interview on C-SPAN2’s program ‘”In Depth.” Here’s the current schedule:Sunday, April 5, 12:00 noon ET (9:00 a.m. PT)
Monday, April 6, 12:00 midnight ET (April 5, 9:00 p.m. PT)
Saturday, April 11, at 9:00 a.m (6:00 a.m. PT)
TGIF: Crisis and Opportunity
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” –Rahm EmanuelHas President Obama’s chief of staff read Robert Higgs’s Crisis and Leviathan?
The rest of this week’s TGIF, “Crisis and Opportunity,” is here.
Bootleggers, Baptists, and Bailed-Out Bankers
For more than a year now, people worldwide have experienced an extraordinary chain of economic events. Led by crushing increases in U.S. mortgage-related bankruptcies, the world financial collapse that followed has been termed the subprime crisis, the financial meltdown, the Wall Street bailout, the beginning of another Great Depression, and even the end of capitalism [...]
2Mar2009 | Bruce Yandle | 4 comments | ContinuedBeware "Stabilization"
The inestimable Robert Higgs, a Freeman columnist and senior fellow at the Independent Institute, has another insightful entry at The Beacon. In “Stabilize This, Stabilize That,” Higgs rips the mask from government programs ostensibly designed to bring stability to the economy. As he puts it:
[L]ike most government policies, those purportedly aimed at stabilization are actually [...]
Book Reviews – November 2008
Opposing the Crusader State: Alternatives to Global Intervention
Edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close
Independent Institute • 2007 • 291 pages
$15.95 papeerback Reviewed by Doug Bandow
It doesn’t seem to matter how badly America’s foreign policy of global intervention has failed. The governing elite advocate more and more extensive intervention.
Virtually every leading national political figure insists [...]
Book Reviews – November 2007
- Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe
by Robert Gellately Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
- Depression, War, and Cold War
by Robert Higgs Reviewed by Burton Folsom, Jr.
- Great Philanthropic Mistakes
by Timothy Sandefur Reviewed by George C. Leef - Elements of Justice
by David Schmidtz Reviewed by Aeon J. Skoble
Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy
Edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close Reviewed by Michael Sanera
1Mar2007 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued-
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