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.
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