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AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS: THE LEGACY OF MISES

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MURRAY ROTHBARD: THE FUTURE OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS



THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIBERTY



SOCIALISM, by Ludwig von Mises

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Publisher's Preface
Foreword by F. A. Hayek
Preface to the Second English Edition (1951)
Translator's Note (1936)
Preface to the Second German Edition (1932)
Introduction
Part I Liberalism and Socialism
I.1 Ownership
I.2 Socialism
I.3 The Social Order and the Political Constitution
I.4 The Social Order and the Family
Part II The Economics of a Socialist Community
Section I The Economics of an Isolated Socialist Community
II.5 The Nature of Economic Activity
II.6 The Organization of Production Under Socialism
II.7 The Distribution of Income
II.8 The Socialist Community Under Stationary Conditions
II.9 The Position of the Individual Under Socialism
II.10 Socialism Under Dynamic Conditions
II.11 The Impracticability of Socialism
Section II The Foreign Relations of a Socialist Community
II.12 National Socialism and World Socialism
II.13 The Problem of Migration Under Socialism
II.14 Foreign Trade Under Socialism
Section III Particular Forms of Socialism and Pseudo-Socialism
II.15 Particular Forms of Socialism
II.16 Pseudo-Socialist Systems
Part III The Alleged Inevitability of Socialism
Section I Social Evolution
III.17 Socialistic Chiliasm
III.18 Society
III.19 Conflict as a Factor in Social Evolution
III.20 The Clash of Class Interests and the Class War
III.21 The Materialist Conception of History
Section II The Concentration of Capital and the Formation of Monopolies as Preliminary Steps to Socialism
III.22 The Problem
III.23 The Concentration of Establishments
III.24 The Concentration of Enterprises
III.25 The Concentration of Fortunes
III.26 Monopoly and Its Effects
Part IV Socialism as a Moral Imperative
IV.27 Socialism and Ethics
IV.28 Socialism as an Emanation of Asceticism
IV.29 Christianity and Socialism
IV.30 Ethical Socialism, Especially That of the New Criticism
IV.31 Economic Democracy
IV.32 Capitalist Ethics
Part V Destructionism
V.33 The Motive Powers of Destructionism
V.34 The Methods of Destructionism
V.35 Overcoming Destructionism
Conclusion The Historical Significance of Modern Socialism
Appendix
Epilogue
Biographical Note
Footnotes
About the Book and Author


"The program of liberalism, therefore, if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production... All the other demands of liberalism result from his fundamental demand."

German edition, 1927; latest English edition Copyright 1985 The Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington, NY. Translation by Ralph Raico. Online edition Copyright The Mises Institute, 2000.



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FRONTMATTER

Preface, 1985 by Bettina B. Greaves, p. v
Foreword by Louis M. Spadaro, p. ix
Preface, English-Language Edition,p xvi

INTRODUCTION

1. Liberalism, p. 1
2.
Material Welfare p. 4
3.
Rationalism p. 5
4.
The Aim of Liberalism p. 7
5.
Liberalism and Capitalism p. 10
6.
The Psychological Roots of Antiliberalism p. 13

I THE FOUNDATIONS OF LIBERAL POLICY

1. Property p. 18
2.
Freedom p. 20
3.
Peace p. 23
4.
Equality p. 27
5.
The Inequality of Wealth and Income p. 30
6.
Private Property and Ethics p. 33
7.
State and Government p. 34
8.
Democracy p. 39
9.
Critique of the Doctrine of Force p. 42
10.
The Argument of Fascism p. 47
11.
The Limits of Governmental Activity p. 52
12.
Tolerance p. 55
13.
The State and Antisocial Conduct p. 57

2 LIBERAL ECONOMIC POLICY

1. The Organization of the Economy p. 60
2.
Private Property and Its Critics p. 63
3.
Private Property and the Government p. 67
4.
The Impracticability of Socialism p. 70
5.
Interventionism p. 75
6.
Capitalism: The Only Possible System of Social Organization p. 85
7.
Cartels, Monopolies, and Liberalism p. 90
8.
Bureaucratization p. 95

3 LIBERAL FOREIGN POLICY

1. The Boundaries of the State p. 105
2.
The Right of Self-Determination p. 108
3.
The Political Foundations of Peace p. 110
4.
Nationalism p. 118
5.
Imperialism p 121
6.
Colonial Policy p. 124
7.
Free Trade p. 130
8.
Freedom of Movement p. 136
9.
The United States of Europe p. 142
10.
The League of Nations p. 147
11.
Russia p. 151

4 LIBERALISM AND THE POLITICAL PARTIES

1. The "Doctrinairism" of the Liberals p. 155
2.
Political Parties p. 158
3.
The Crisis of Parliamentarism and the Idea of a Diet Representing Special Groups p. 170
4.
Liberalism and the Parties of Special Interests p. 175
5.
Party Propaganda and Party Organization p. 179
6.
Liberalism as the "Party of Capital" p. 183
5 THE FUTURE OF LIBERALISM p. 188

APPENDIX

1. On the Literature of Liberalism p. 194
2.
On the Term "Liberalism" p. 198

Glossary by Percy Greaves


Special thanks to Bettina B. Greaves for granting her permission for this online edition.

This Mises e-book was prepared by Richard Perry

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