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Robert Higgs
American
Economist
Born:
Feb 1
,
1944
Appreciation
Government
Pay
People
Presidents
Wars
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Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products.
Robert Higgs
Appreciation
Depend
Economies
Modern
Which
Little
Fuels
Use
Products
Fossil
Many
Fossil Fuels
Display
Groups
Extent
Austria, Germany and the U.S. South did not disappear as a result of their currencies' ruin. Although many people suffered, most people found a way to survive, life went on, and economic activity eventually resumed after the adoption of a 'reformed' or foreign medium of exchange.
Robert Higgs
Life
People
Result
Medium
Ruin
Way
Adoption
Economic
Economic Activity
Resumed
Exchange
Disappear
Most
Although
Foreign
South
Austria
Germany
Survive
Reformed
Did
After
To Survive
Many
Activity
Found
Suffered
Eventually
If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending.
Robert Higgs
Government
You
People
Money
Will
Value
Some People
Employees
Pay
Spend
Spending
Some
Economic
Economic Growth
Count
Counted
Firm
Days
Private
Government Spending
Contributing
Gets
Want
Produce
Creating
Measurements
Why
Flop
Growth
Ton
Early
Early Days
Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural disasters such as deadly pandemics or lethal changes in the world's climate.
Robert Higgs
Government
Food
Natural
World
Will
Natural Disasters
Think
Changes
Spending
Collapse
Runaway
Some
Excessive
Disasters
Deadly
Climate
Oppressive
Government Spending
Shortages
Fuel
Taxation
Regulation
Lethal
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