EPISODE · Nov 20, 2015 · 1H 3M
Taking a Stand
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The economic historian and economist Robert Higgs joins us to talk about his new book, Taking a Stand: Reflections on Life, Liberty, and the Economy (2015).Show Notes and Further ReadingHiggs’s classic work on how government has grown, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (1987).We also talk about Higgs’s Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American economy 1865-1914 (1977).Higgs mentions a few books by C. Wright Mills: The Power Elite (1956) and The Sociological Imagination (1959). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The economic historian and economist Robert Higgs joins us to talk about his new book, Taking a Stand: Reflections on Life, Liberty, and the Economy (2015).Show Notes and Further ReadingHiggs’s classic work on how government has grown, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (1987).We also talk about Higgs’s Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American economy 1865-1914 (1977).Higgs mentions a few books by C. Wright Mills: The Power Elite (1956) and The Sociological Imagination (1959). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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