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Robert Higgs (born 1 February 1944) is an American economic historian and economist combining material from Public Choice, the New institutional economics, and the Austrian school of economics; and describes himself as a "libertarian anarchist" in political and legal theory and public policy [clarification needed].
Robert Higgs is a retired economist and political scientist who has written and edited several books and articles on the growth of American government, the state, and the economy. He is also the founding editor of The Independent Review and a former visiting scholar at Oxford and Stanford.
Jun 17, 2021 · Robert Higgs is a retired senior fellow of the Mises Institute and the Independent Institute, and a recipient of the Schlarbaum Prize and the Rothbard Medal. He writes on topics such as regulatory harmonization, consent of the governed, and government overreach in times of crisis.
Dec 31, 2016 · Robert Higgs has had a long and storied career as a scholar, teacher, and editor. After earning his Ph.D. in Economics at Johns Hopkins University in 1968, Bob held academic positions at the University of Washington (1968–1983), Lafayette College (1983–1989), and Seattle University (1989–1994).
Dr. Robert Higgs delivered one of our most popular and most-watched Mises U speeches in 2013, a terrific exposition entitled “The State is too Dangerous to Tolerate”. It’s an intellectual tour de force from Higgs, where he demolishes many of the popular misconceptions about (and justifications for) the state in one compelling talk.
In Crisis and Leviathan, Robert Higgs shows that the main reason lies in government’s responses to national “crises” (real or imagined), including economic upheavals (e.g., the Great Depression) and especially war (e.g., World Wars I and II, Cold War, etc.).
Feb 1, 2021 · It’s hard not to have the same reaction looking at the prodigious output of the economic historian Robert Higgs, who turns 77 years old today. Higgs earned a PhD in economics from Johns Hopkins University in 1968 and joined the faculty at the University of Washington, where he would work alongside colleagues like Douglass C. North ...
