Economic and Political Change After Crisis - Prospects for Government, Liberty and the Rule of Law

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Stephen H. (Texas Tech University Balch, Stephen H. Powell Balch
• Assisted by: Stephen H. Balch (Editor), Balch Stephen H. (Editor), Benjamin Powell (Editor), Powell Benjamin (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367890001
• ISBN: 978-0-367-89000-1
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Business & Economics / General, Economics, Business and Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Government & Business, Economic Geography, Political science & theory, Economic theory & philosophy, Political Economy, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Economics of specific sectors, Economic theory and philosophy, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies