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Taking a Stand: Reflections on Life, Liberty, and the Economy

(The Independent Institute, 2015)

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Featuring the author Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow, Political Economy, Independent Institute; moderated by John Samples, Vice President and Publisher, Cato Institute.

Economist and historian Robert Higgs has advanced our understanding of the causes, means, and effects of government power and the need to deconstruct statism and re-establish institutions that protect and advance liberty, prosperity, and peace. His work has engaged such issues as health care, the environment, law and economics, urban development, race discrimination, agriculture, immigration, war and peace, economic development, government spending and debt, welfare, money and banking, presidential power, civil liberties, the Great Depression, science, unemployment, and far more.
 

His new book offers general readers keen analysis and engaging wit, informed by humility and compassion. Higgs examines the moral and practical imperatives of individual liberty, entrepreneurship and innovation, peace, economic growth, personal responsibility, civic virtue, and the rule of law. Taking a Stand’s 99 short, accessible chapters present a powerful and uplifting vision for the future.

Please join us to hear this leading libertarian on the challenges and opportunities of the present age.