Robert Higgs
Robert Higgs is an American economic historian and economist. He is known for research on the growth of the United States government, especially the ratchet effect, the idea that state power expands during wars and other crises and only partly recedes afterward, which he developed in Crisis and Leviathan (1987). He is a retired senior fellow in political economy at the Independent Institute, where he founded and later served as editor at large of The Independent Review, and he has held faculty appointments at the University of Washington, Lafayette College, and Seattle University.
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- Johns Hopkins University
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- 🎓 Edwin Mills🎓 H. Louis (Henry) Stettler
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Lee J. Alston📖 Price V. Fishback📖 Julio H. Cole
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