Para entender por qué el tamaño de los Estados no para de crecer, hay que comprender cómo se produce esa expansión. ¿Cuándo tiene lugar? ¿A qué se debe? ¿Es nuestro destino que el Estado asuma cada vez más funciones y gastos? ¿Por qué nos resignamos a que sea así?En este libro ya clásico, que aporta una original perspectiva sobre uno de los grandes problemas de nuestro tiempo, el historiador de la economía Robert Higgs da una explicación coherente del fenómeno y crea un marco analí...

Other books exist that warn of the dangers of empire and war. However, few, if any, of these books do so from a scholarly, informed economic standpoint. In Depression, War, and Cold War , Robert Higgs, a highly regarded economic historian, makes pointed, fresh economic arguments against war, showing links between government policies and the economy in a clear, accessible way. He boldly questions, for instance, the widely accepted idea that World War II was the chief reason the Dep...

Crisis and Leviathan is Higgs’s masterwork on how government grows in size, scope, and power in response to real or imagined “crises.” From war to economic upheavals, government overreach endures long after each crisis has passed, impinging on civil liberties and fostering extensive corporate welfare.Few topics are as timely as the growth of government. To understand why government has grown, Robert Higgs asserts, one must understand how i...

For over half a century, Robert Higgs has been a trailblazer in the fields of economics and political economy, challenging the conventional paradigm of government intervention with incisive critique and rigorous theoretical and historical analysis. As the founding editor of The Independent Review, Higgs carved out an intellectual space for a freer exploration of pressing issues in political economy and policy. Over the course of a distinguished academic career, including professorships at ...

This collection of essays explores the ways in which the defense of liberty can be bolstered by use of a dialectical method—that is, a mode of analysis devoted to grasping the full context of philosophical, cultural, and social factors requisite to the sustenance of human freedom. Its strength lies in the variety of disciplines and perspectives represented by contributors who apply explicitly dialectical tools to a classical liberal / libertarian analysis of social and cultural issues. In ...

In questo volume viene descritta la storia della ricerca che ha portato all'evidenza sperimentale del bosone di Higgs, annunciata ufficialmente dal CERN di Ginevra il 4 Luglio 2012. Questa scoperta ha rappresentato il coronamento di un cammino iniziato con la scoperta della radioattività nel 1896, e che ha portato alla congettura di una nuova interazione, l’interazione debole. Vengono ripercorsi i tentativi per comprendere questo nuovo tipo di forza, con le difficoltà, le soddisfazioni mom...

This book provides a general description of the search for and discovery of the Higgs boson (particle) at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The goal is to provide a relatively brief overview of the issues, instruments and techniques relevant for this search; written by a physicist who was directly involved. The Higgs boson may be the one particle that was studied the most before its discovery and the story from postulation in 1964 to detection in 2012 is a fascinating one. The story is told he...

In Grace in All Simplicity, listeners will delight in Cahn and Quigg's engaging prose and see how the infinite and the infinitesimal are joined. Today, physicists and astronomers are exploring distances from a billionth of a billionth of the human scale to the entire cosmos, and contemplating time intervals that range from less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second out to far longer than the age of the universe. Leaving home in this metaphorical way requires devising new i...

This book explores the Micro-World of subatomic particles and forces, including the recently discovered Higgs boson.The pursuit of nature’s smallest parts is one of mankind’s oldest quests, beginning at least 26 centuries ago. But, just in our lifetimes it seems we’ve finally “hit bottom.” Each step deeper into the Micro-World has revealed surprises, and expanded our understanding of nature on all size scales. At the bottom, we see a remarkable unity — nature is the same everywhere...

Dirk De Graaf has kept his deadly secret for twenty-three years. Not one person on the planet knows.Until today.A chance encounter in the street threatens to expose everything and topple an empire he built with little more than ruthless cunning.But it's just one man. One old man. And one old man can be dealt with easily enough.Or so Dirk De Graaf thinks.He should have picked a different old man because some old habits are hard to break and getting in...

There is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects on human health. In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognized areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases. Set in a broad international, economic, political and environmental context, this unique book expands these issues by reviving...

Blue Moon Investigations Ten Book Bundle A Snarky Paranormal Detective Mystery by Steve Higgs Amazon. com #1 best seller in Vampire Thrillers, Humorous Fantasy and many more. When Tempest Michaels opened a paranormal investigation agency, it was to corner a niche of the market where gullible people believe they are being haunted or that their Great Aunt Hilda is a witch …… what he gets is unparalleled mayhem as cases with far more teeth and claw than he expected start lining up at his door...