Carl P Close Editor

Robert Higgs is the author of Competition and Coercion, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government, and The Transformation of the American Economy 1865–1914 and the editor of Hazardous to Our Health and Arms, Politics and the Economy. He is a senior fellow in political economy at the Independent Institute and editor of the Institute’s quarterly journal, The Independent Review. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Carl P. Close is the academic affairs director at the Independent Institute and is an assistant editor of The Independent Review. He lives in Oakland, California.