Robert Higgs
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"Robert Higgs" is an United States/American economic historian and economics/economist combining material from Public Choice, the New Institutional economics, and the Austrian School/Austrian school of economics; and a Libertarianism/libertarian Anarchism/anarchist in political and legal theory and public policy. His writings in economics and economic history have most often focused on the causes, means, and effects of government power and growth.

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When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.

[It is good to know that we need no longer rack our brains trying to grasp the fine points of Austrian business-cycle theory. Economic theory is as illusory as physics:] there's nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. ... American recovery beginning in 1933.