Robert Higgs Quotes


It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of violence against unoffending persons cannot be beneficial to one and all.


Citations

Higgs, Robert. Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society. Independent Institute, 2004.

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Robert Higgs
Robert Higgs
  • Born: February 1, 1944
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Economist

Robert Higgs is an American economic historian and economist combining material from Public Choice, the New institutional economics, and the Austrian school of economics; and describes himself as a "libertarian 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.