Economic and political change after crisis : prospects for government, liberty, and the rule of law / edited by Stephen H. Balch and Benjamin Powell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- About the authors -- Introduction / Stephen Balch and Benjamin Powell -- Crisis and government power -- Crisis without leviathan? / Robert Higgs -- The rule of law during times of economic crisis / Todd Zywicki -- Fiscal crisis -- Fiscal crisis as a quality of progressivist democracy / Richard Wagner -- The consequences of a United States default or repudiation / Jeffrey Rogers Hummel -- Regime crisis -- The United States military's role in national crises : past, present, and future / Paul Springer -- The dark side of modernity : existential threats to life as we know it / Tevi Troy -- Index.