Economic and Political Change After Crisis: Prospects for Government, Liberty and the Rule of Law

ISBN-13: 9780367890001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 184 str.

Stephen H. Balch; Benjamin Powell

Opis

The U.S. Government’s accumulated national debt and unfunded liabilities in social security and Medicare could be pushing the country towards a fiscal crisis. How could such a crisis be avoided? If a crisis does strike, how might it be dealt with? What might be the long term ramifications of experiencing a crisis? The contributors to Economic

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

1 Introduction

Stephen Balch and Benjamin Powell

PART I: Crisis and Government Power

2 Crisis without Leviathan?

Robert Higgs

3 The Rule of Law during Times of Economic Crisis

Todd Zywicki

PART II: Fiscal Crisis

4 Fiscal Crisis as a Quality of Progressivist Democracy

Richard Wagner

5 The Consequences of a United States Default or Repudiation

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

PART III: Regime Crisis

6 The United States Military’s Role in National Crises: Past, Present, and Future

Paul Springer

7 The Dark Side of Modernity: Existential Threats to Life as We Know It

Tevi Troy

O autorze

Stephen H. Balch is Director of the Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, Texas Tech University, USA.

Benjamin Powell is the Director of the Free Market Institute and a Professor of Economics in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University, USA.