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State-led humanitarian aid: Another case of “government failure”
Higgs, Robert - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 26 (2013) 4, pp. 493-496
A review essay on Christopher Coyne’s Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013). The book considers whether state-led humanitarian actions can be expected to succeed in reducing human suffering. Finding that as a rule they cannot be...
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An economic analysis of national reconstruction at gunpoint
Higgs, Robert - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 21 (2008) 4, pp. 341-347
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Banning a Risky Product Cannot Improve Any Consumer's Welfare (Properly Understood), With Applications to FDA Testing Requirements.
Higgs, Robert - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 7 (1994) 2, pp. 3-20
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