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WWI was the culmination of progressivism. It was possible to impose prohibition. The creation of the Fed and the passage of an income tax allowed warfare socialism to rage and liberties to be lost. Government reallocated resources by taking money from citizens and then purchasing war goods. Inflation was a stealth tax that fooled people. Most thought inflation was the fault of markets rather than governments. Patriotic hoopla was needed to persuade young men to be cannon fodder. Draft riots did not happen because many simply did not register for the draft and the Army had learned from earlier resistance to take themselves out of the visible draft activity. Recruiters made the system look like community defense efforts. The Brits invented war propaganda to induce Americans to come into the war. Industry was mainly guided by a War Industries Board, using businessmen from various sectors as public servants. They tried to substitute their judgments for what should have been reliance upon the price system. The mess being made would have been obvious had the war continued much longer. Central planners can do something but they can’t know the opportunity lost costs. They can’t satisfy economic rationality. They can’t know how much they wasted. Bibliography (PDF): Mises.org/CLBib Lecture 5 of 10 from Robert Higgs' Crisis and Liberty: The Expansion of Government Power in American History. Recorded at the Mises Institute on June 25, 2003.
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The growth of government power in American history has been by creating emergencies that then necessitate a ratcheting up of centralized power and war. 'Crisis & Leviathan' by Higgs is a prime resource for this topic. What do we mean by the size of government? There’s no one way to measure it. Economists make the strange and wrong assumption that government must grow when the economy grows. Government is too multidimensional to measure. In the US government is also on different levels, making rules and imposing taxes. Eighty thousand such entities have this power to tax. The more complex social life becomes, the less possible it is that government officials could have the knowledge required to coordinate human action. That is hubris. It is the fatal conceit. Government growth is not taking place because of market externalities or inefficiencies. The dominant ideology does prop up whatever the government does, but it’s not the whole story. The connection of government growth to crisis is realistic and observable. Bibliography (PDF): Mises.org/CLBib Lecture 1 of 10 from Robert Higgs' Crisis and Liberty: The Expansion of Government Power in American History. Recorded at the Mises Institute on June 23, 2003.
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The role of ideology in the growth of government is required as intellectual cover for what is done regardless of the government form (e.g. monarchy or socialism). For example, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. played such an intellectual role. People want to promote what they believe their interests are. Collective action has added to the growth of government. The benefits of participating in collective action are not always clear. What is ideology? Ideology is a more or less comprehensive belief system about social relations. It is not religion, nor political philosophy, nor just social theory. Ideology has at least four dimensions: Cognitive, Affective, Programmatic, and Solidarity. Ideological opponents in the last two hundred years have come from the Federalists political party favoring more centralization versus Jeffersonians and a later Republican party favoring decentralization, and laissez-faire economics. These interest groups have continued. Today, it is progressivism that spawns government central planning – statism. Both major parties are statist parties now engaged in plundering citizens. Bibliography (PDF): Mises.org/CLBib Lecture 2 of 10 from Robert Higgs' Crisis and Liberty: The Expansion of Government Power in American History. Recorded at the Mises Institute on June 23, 2003.
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State and local levels of government were more burdensome to people in the early stages of our country than federal levels. The national government mainly received revenue through tariffs and land sales. The Constitution forbade individuals states from issuing paper money (Bills of Credit). Paper money is a vehicle of taxation. But many states went into the banking business, anyway. It was early crony capitalism. Plus, several states got into infrastructure business, like the Erie Canal and railroads, at public expense. Corruption is always part of government. Americans have always been land speculators. Taxpayers were saddled with debt. These boondoggles were an important way that government distorted the markets. Government was bigger than mere tax records made them look. Land grants were used as money. Land was a big deal in the nineteenth century. The country developed differently because of subsidies than it would have by markets alone. The Civil War made a deep difference in the expansion of government and the development of big business. No state could secede. The states saw that they were mere administrative parts of the central government. Federalism was dead, but each state used its own regulatory power to burden companies. States sought central control and regulations to simplify business law. Anti-Trust Law and the Interstate Commerce Clause created some of the first federal agencies. Bibliography (PDF): Mises.org/CLBib Lecture 3 of 10 from Robert Higgs' Crisis and Liberty: The Expansion of Government Power in American History. Recorded at the Mises Institute on June 24, 2003.
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Government was different in the 19th Century, but not as starkly different as some people believe. The 20th Century was the Progressive Era. Foreign policy went from staying out of European quarrels to policing the world whether the world desired policing or not. Unchecked government intervention became the rule. Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were the mothers of all pernicious 20th Century policy. Roosevelt was a psychopathic proto-fascist. Wilson was more a humorless Lenin-like person. Wilson plunged the nation into unnecessary WWI, busting up four empires, and guaranteeing that more war would happen. FDR was a full-fledged Wilsonian who prolonged the depression and WWII. The pygmy Truman had a domestically corrupt administration and a failed foreign policy. Eisenhower delivered a quieter time. The modern welfare state was put in place in the 60s and 70s. Why did we move from limited government to galloping statism? Are we really better off having government experts running things? Men like John Dewey helped push us into collectivism. Great uncertainty for business was created by new federal agencies. Unfounded fears about running out of simple resources like timber served to expand governmental control. Conservationists have never understood the concept of value versus economic behavior. Bibliography (PDF): Mises.org/CLBib Lecture 4 of 10 from Robert Higgs' Crisis and Liberty: The Expansion of Government Power in American History. Recorded at the Mises Institute on June 24, 2003.
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