In Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (1987), Robert Higgs provides a detailed explanation for the growth of government in the twentieth century. His insights and the applicability of the ratchet effect model have yet to be fully appreciated and there are many important ways in which the framework and its implications have been left under- or unexplored. This symposium investigates some of these neglected areas and demonstrate avenues for further inquiry.
Abigail R. Hall is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, and an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Tampa.
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Ryan M. Yonk is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Senior Research Faculty at the American Institute for Economic Research.
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| Spring 2025 | The Nuclear Ratchet: Crisis, Leviathan, and Atomic Weapons | |
| Spring 2023 | How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite | |
| Fall 2021 | Militarized Extremism: The Radical Right and the War on Terror | |
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| Spring 2025 | The China Ratchet: Extending Higgs’s Model to Explore Foreign Policy | |
| Spring 2024 | Conservation, Ecology, and Growth in For a New Liberty | |
| Summer 2017 | From Equality and the Rule of Law to the Collapse of Egalitarianism | |
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