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DESCRIPTION:TITLE: "Liberty and Leviathan" - The 2006 Thomas Szasz Awards and an 
 Evening with Robert Higgs\n\nWHEN:\nWednesday, December 6, 2006\nReception 
 & book signing: 6:30 P.M\nProgram starts at 7:00 P.M. and concludes at 
 about 9:00 P.M.\n\nSPEAKERS: \n- Thomas S. Szasz, Emeritus Professor of 
 Psychiatry at State University Medical Center Syracuse, and author of "The 
 Myth of Mental Illness"\n- Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow of The Independent 
 Institute, and author of "Crisis and Leviathan" and "Depression, War, and 
 Cold War"\n- Robert Spillane, Professor of Management at Macquarie 
 University, Australia, and author of nine books on psychology and 
 management.\n\nDESCRIPTION:\nGala reception and presentation of the 2006 
 Thomas S. Szasz Awards for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil 
 Liberties to our Senior Fellow Robert Higgs and Australian psychologist 
 Robert Spillane: 
 http://www.independent.org/newsroom/news_detail.asp?newsID=79\n\nThe 
 program will feature world-renowned author and critic of psychiatric 
 abuses, Thomas Szasz, followed by a special forum featuring Dr. Higgs on 
 "Liberty and Leviathan," based on his acclaimed, new book, DEPRESSION, WAR, 
 AND COLD WAR (Oxford University Press), the sequel to his classic CRISIS 
 AND LEVIATHAN. 
 http://www.independent.org/store/book_detail.asp?bookID=65\n\nAs you may 
 well know, within the past five years, domestic spending by the federal 
 government has grown faster than at any time since before the Great 
 Depression. How could the U.S. government have grown by more than one-third 
 since 9/11, with Congress having increased the national debt to $8.5 
 trillion, the feds annually consuming a record $2.5 trillion, and 
 constitutional liberties increasingly jeopardized? Is this unique or are 
 there precedents in past "crises"?\n\nBased on DEPRESSION, WAR, AND COLD 
 WAR, Dr. Higgs will provide a powerful, solidly grounded exposé of 
 government power in the U.S. since the early 1930s, answering key questions 
 that have long puzzled historians: What accounts for the extraordinary 
 length of the Great Depression? What about "wartime prosperity" and whether 
 World War II "got the economy out of the depression"? How does war alter 
 relations between government and the leaders of business and labor? How do 
 military economies alter the business cycle, as during World War II and the 
 Cold War? What is Congress's role in the military-industrial-congressional 
 complex?\n\nTICKETS:\n$15 per person ($10 for Independent Institute 
 members)\nReserve tickets by calling (510) 632-1366 or ordering on line at 
 www.Independent.org/events/detail.asp?eventID=123.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/03/18334807.php
SUMMARY:"Liberty and Leviathan" - The 2006 Thomas Szasz Awards and an Evening with Robert Higgs
LOCATION:The Independent Institute Conference Center \n100 Swan Way\nOakland, CA 
 94621\nFor a map and directions, see 
 www.Independent.org/aboutus/map.asp.\n(www.Independent.org, 510/632-1366)\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/03/18334807.php
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