Robert Higgs
Robert Higgs | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 1, 1944 |
| Academic background | |
| Doctoral advisor | Edwin Mills H. Louis Stettler |
| Influences | Kuznets, North, Coase, Schumpeter, Mises, Hayek, Rothbard |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Economic history, political economy, natural resource economics, health economics, military economics |
| School or tradition | Austrian School |
| Doctoral students | Price V. Fishback |
Robert Higgs (born February 1, 1944) is an American economic historian and economist combining material from Public Choice, the New institutional economics, and the Austrian school of economics; and describes himself as a "libertarian anarchist" in political and legal theory and public policy. His writings in economics and economic history have most often focused on the causes, means, and effects of government power and growth.