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born 1944 United States

Robert Higgs (born 1 February 1944) is an American economic historian and economist.

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The world probably would have been much better off had macroeconomics never been devised.

Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz’s monumental Monetary History of the United States eventually helped to displace Keynesian interpretations with a monetarist interpretation, especially after the stagflation of the 1970s worked to discredit Keynesian macroeconomics.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Higgs (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.