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Economic and Political Change after Crisis: Prospects for government, liberty and the rule of law book cover

1st Edition

Economic and Political Change after Crisis Prospects for government, liberty and the rule of law

Edited By Stephen H. Balch, Benjamin Powell Copyright 2017
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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 and Political Change After Crisis explore all of... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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