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LIBERALISM

Ludwig von Mises

 

Subtitle: The Classical Tradition, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, 2005, 171 pgs. notes. bibliography, paperback

 
 

Reviewer Comments:

 
 

Preface, 1985

 
 

Introdution
1 Liberalism
2 Material Welfare
3 Rationalism
4 The Aim of Liberalism
5 Liberaslism and Capitalism
6 The Psychological Roots of Antiliberalism

 
 

Chapter 1 The Foundations of Liberal Policy
1 Property
2 Freedom
3 Peace
4 Equality
5 The Inequality of Wealth and Income
6 Private Property and Ethics
7 State and Government
8 Democracy
9 Critique of the Doctrine of Force
10 TheArgument of Fascism
11 The Limits of Governmental Activity
12 Tolerance
13 The State and Antisocial Conduct

 
 

Chapter 2 Liberal Economic Policy
1 The Organization of the Economy
2 Private Property and Its Critics
3 Private Property and the Government
4 The Impracticability of Socialism
5 Interventionism
6 Capitalism: The Only Possible System of Social Organization
7 Cartels, Monopolies and Liberalism
8 Bureaucratization

 
 

Chapter 3 Liberal Foreign Policy
1 The Boundaries of the State
2 The Right of Self-Determination
3 The Political Foundations of Peace
4 Nationalism
5 Imperialism
6 Colonial Policy
7 Free Trade
8 Freedom of Movement
9 The United States of Europe
10 The League of Nations
11 Russia

 
 

Chapter 4 Liberalism and the Political Parties
1 The "Doctrinairiasm" of the Liberals
2 Political Parties
3 The Crisis of Parliamentariasm and the Idea of a Diet Representing Special Groups
4 Liberalism and the Parties of Special Interests
5 Party Propaganda and Party Organization
6 Liberalism as the "Party of Capital"

 
 

Chapter 5 The Future of Liberalism

 
 

Appendix
1 On the Literature of Liberalism
2 On the Term "Liberalism"

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 

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