More than a study of trends in governmental spending, taxation, and employment, Crisis and Leviathan is a thorough analysis of the actual occasions when and the ...

This book is absolutely essential for anyone who seeks to understand the dynamics of government growth and the loss of liberty.

One of the most important books ever written on the nature of government power, Crisis and Leviathan is a powerful work of first-rate scholarship whose message ...

Bob Higgs' brilliant book Crisis and Leviathan recounts in vivid historical detail the so-called ratchet theory of growth in government. According to this ...

In Crisis and Leviathan, economist and historian Robert Higgs shows how Big Government emerged from responses to national emergencies that occurred as attitudes ...

This book is absolutely essential for anyone who seeks to understand the dynamics of government growth and the loss of liberty. The contents of this volume ...

Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government. Robert Higgs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987, 350 pp. There is an ...

' Higgs describes and interprets a particular stage of government his- tory, namely, what he calls the rise of big government. Leviathan occurs.

Based on the book Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs, this story finds the twins learning the power of truth in a world filled with fearmongering, ignorance, ...