Robert Higgs

Works Published inSpeeches and PresentationsMises Daily ArticleThe Journal of Libertarian StudiesQuarterly Journal of Austrian EconomicsThe Free MarketReview of Austrian Economics, Volumes 1-10Libertarian Papers

AwardsGary G. Schlarbaum Prize for Lifetime Defense of LibertyMurray N. Rothbard Medal of Freedom

Dr. Robert Higgs is retired and lives in Mexico. He was a senior fellow in political economy for the Independent Institute and longtime editor of The Independent Review; he was also a senior fellow of the Mises Institute. He is the 2007 recipient of the Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Cause of Liberty, and the 2015 Murray N. Rothbard Medal of Freedom.

Major Works

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Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society, by Robert Higgs

Big GovernmentThe Police State

12/01/2004Mises ReviewDavid Gordon

Reading Robert Higgs’s magnificent collection of essays leaves one puzzled. Higgs is the foremost American economic historian who writes from a free-market perspective.

Transformation of the American Economy by Robert Higgs

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The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865-1914

U.S. EconomyU.S. History

08/19/2011BooksRobert Higgs

The Gilded Age — lasting from 1865 to World War I — was an era of economic growth never before seen in the history of the world. Robert Higgs explains why.

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The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865-1914_2.pdf

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The Siren Song of the State

Political Theory

07/23/2019The Free MarketRobert Higgs

We Americans shall never have real, lasting peace so long as we give our allegiance to a king—that is, in our case, to the whole conglomeration of institutionalized exploiters and murderers we know as the state.

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The Living Reality of Military-Economic Fascism

War and Foreign PolicyOther Schools of ThoughtPhilosophy and Methodology

09/21/2018Mises Daily ArticlesRobert Higgs

No organization has more money at its disposal than the US government, which attracts thieves and con men at least in full proportion to its control of wealth.

Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism by Guido Hulsmann

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Higgs on Hulsmann and Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism

Media and Culture

09/17/2018Power & MarketRobert Higgs

I have known Guido a long time, and when he was working on the book, I used to goad him by asking frequently, “When are you going to finish that Mises book?” I had no idea what a tremendous project that research was or what magnificent fruit it would bear. After reading it, I wrote to...

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Nonsense on Deflation

Money and BanksU.S. Economy

08/11/2018The Free MarketRobert Higgs

That deflation is always and everywhere a bad thing is now an almost universal article of faith among mainstream economists and financial commentators.

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