Neither Liberty Nor Safety

Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government

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Autor(en)	Robert Higgs	Verlag	Independent Institute
Sachgebiet(e)	Liberalismus, English Books	ISBN	978-1-59813-012-6
2007, 176 Seiten, Taschenbuch

In Neither Liberty Nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government, economist and historian Robert Higgs illustrates the false trade-off between freedom and security by showing how the U.S. government’s economic and military interventions reduced the civil and economic liberties, prosperity, and genuine security of Americans in the 20th century. Extending the theme of Higgs’s earlier books, Neither Liberty Nor Safety stresses the role of misguided ideas in the expansion of government power at the expense of individual liberty. Higgs illuminates not only many underappreciated aspects of the Great Depression, the two world wars, and the postwar era, but also the government’s manipulation of public opinion and the role that ideologies play in influencing political outcomes and economic performance.

Content:

Introduction
1. Fear: The Foundation of Every Government’s Power
2. Eighteen Problematic Propositions in the Analysis of the Growth of Government
3. The Complex Course of Ideological Change
4. Crisis and Leviathan: Review and Response
5. What Got Us Into and Out of the Great Depression?
6. The United States Won the World Wars, but Americans Lost
7. Government and the Economy in the United States since World War II
8. The Ongoing Growth of Government in the Economically Advanced Countries
Index
About the Author

Source: The Independent Institute