Robert Higgs

Robert Higgs
Born (1944-02-01) February 1, 1944 (age 80)
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
FieldEconomic history, political economy, natural resource economics, health economics, military economics
School or
tradition
Austrian School
Doctoral
advisor
Edwin Mills
H. Louis Stettler
Doctoral
students
Price V. Fishback
InfluencesKuznets, North, Coase, Schumpeter, Mises, Hayek, Rothbard

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"[1] in political and legal theory and public policy[clarification needed]. His writings in economics and economic history have most often focused on the causes, means, and effects of government power and growth.