The Research Program of Robert Higgs

Hayek Program Associate Director Christopher Coyne interviews the 2015-2016 F. A. Hayek Distinguished Visiting Scholar Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institute’s quarterly journal The Independent Review. Coyne talks to Professor Higgs about his intellectual background, his work in Austrian economics, and his work at The Independent Review. He also discusses his challenge to the claim that World War II helped the U.S. out of the Great Depression and the lessons of his book Crisis & Leviathan. CC Music: Twisterium

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The Hayek Program Podcast includes audio from lectures, interviews, and discussions of scholars and visitors from the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. The F. A. Hayek Program is devoted to the promotion of teaching and research on the institutional arrangements that are suitable for the support of free and prosperous societies. Implicit in this statement is the presumption that those arrangements are to some extent open to conscious selection, as well as the appreciation that the type of arrangements that are selected within a society can influence significantly the economic, political, and moral character of that society.