Robert Higgs

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Robert Higgs
Born	(1944-02-01) 1 February 1944 (age 80)
Nationality	American
Academic career
Field	Economic 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
Influences	Kuznets, North, Coase, Schumpeter, Mises, Hayek, Rothbard

Robert Higgs (born 1 February 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.