Today’s Flash Back Friday comes from episode #26. Jason Hartman talks with Robert Higgs, a Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institute’s quarterly journal The Independent Review. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, and has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University and Stanford University.

Dr. Higgs is the editor of The Independent Institute books Opposing the Crusader State, The Challenge of Liberty, Re-Thinking Green, Hazardous to Our Health and Arms, Politics, and the Economy, plus the volume Emergence of the Modern Political Economy. A contributor to numerous scholarly volumes, he is the author of more than 100 articles and reviews in academic journals.

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Neither Liberty nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government