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Higgs, Robert: Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy.(Book review)
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Higgs, Robert Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 236 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-1951-8292-8 Publication: May 2006
By bringing together ten previously published essays in his latest book, Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy, eminent economist Robert Higgs expresses his hope that "these trees do add up to a forest, that the individual studies, laid back to back, do tell a coherent overarching tale" (xiv). Higgs, a Senior Fellow in political economy at the Independent Institute, need not worry about coherence here because his thesis is clear. It is a convincing testament to the observation ...
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