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• Foreword
• Author’s Preface
• Interventionism
• Introduction
• 1.: The Problem
• 2.: Capitalism Or Market Economy
• 3.: The Socialist Economy
• 4.: The Capitalist State and the Socialist State
• 5.: The Interventionist State
• 6.: The Plea For Moral Reform
• I.: Interference By Restriction
• 1.: The Nature of Restrictive Measures
• 2.: Costs and Benefits of Restrictive Measures
• 3.: The Restrictive Measure As a Privilege
• 4.: Restrictive Measures As Expenditures
• II.: Interference By Price Control
• 1.: The Alternative: Statutory Law Versus Economic Law
• 2.: The Reaction of the Market
• 3.: Minimum Wages and Unemployment
• 4.: The Political Consequences of Unemployment
• III.: Inflation and Credit Expansion
• 1.: Inflation
• 2.: Credit Expansion
• 3.: Foreign Exchange Control
• 4.: The Flight of Capital and the Problem of “hot Money”
• IV.: Confiscation and Subsidies
• 1.: Confiscation
• 2.: The Procurement of Funds For Public Expenditure
• 3.: Unprofitable Public Works and Subsidies
• 4.: “altruistic” Entrepreneurship
• V.: Corporativism and Syndicalism
• 1.: Corporativism
• 2.: Syndicalism
• VI.: War Economy
• 1.: War and the Market Economy
• 2.: Total War and War Socialism
• 3.: Market Economy and National Defense
• VII.: The Economic, Social, and Political Consequences of Interventionism
• 1.: The Economic Consequences
• 2.: Parliamentary Government and Interventionism
• 3.: Freedom and the Economic System
• 4.: The Great Delusion
• 5.: The Source of Hitler’s Success
• VIII.: Conclusions
• Reading References

READING REFERENCES

In this book, Mises shows how government intervention results in consequences its proponents did not intend. It hampers production, causing artificial scarcities. It creates special interest groups. It leads to inflation, domestic economic conflict, a militant nationalism, international conflict, and even war. The books listed here deal with various aspects of intervention and help to elaborate and expand on Mises’s theme.

• Bastiat, Frederic. Economic Sophisms (French original, 1845, 1848; translated by Arthur Goddard, Van Nostrand, 1964). Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Foundation for Economic Education, 1991.
• Carson, Clarence B. Flight from Reality. Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Foundation for Economic Education, 1969.
• ———. The World in the Grip of an Idea. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1980.
• Friedman, Milton, with the assistance of Rose D. Friedman. Capitalism and Freedom (1962). New preface by the author. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
• Greaves, Percy L., Jr. Understanding the Dollar Crisis (1973). Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Free Market Books, 1984.
• Hayek, F. A. The Road to Serfdom (1944). 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Milton Friedman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
• Hazlitt, Henry. Economics in One Lesson (1946; many reprints). 50th anniversary edition. Foreword by Steve Forbes. San Francisco: Laissez Faire Books, 1996.
• Higgs, Robert. Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
• Mises, Ludwig von. Bureaucracy (1944; reprinted 1969). Spring Mills, Pa.: Libertarian Press, 1983.
• ———. Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow (1979). Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Free Market Books, 1995.
• ———. Liberalism: The Classical Tradition (German original, 1927; translated by Ralph Raico; 1st English-language edition titled The Free and Prosperous Commonwealth, 1962). Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Foundation for Economic Education, 1985, 1996.
• ———. Nation, State and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time (German original, 1919; translated by Leland B. Yeager). New York: New York University Press, 1983.
• ———. Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War (1944; 1969). Spring Mills, Pa.: Libertarian Press, 1985.
• ———. Planned Chaos. Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Foundation for Economic Education, 1947. Many printings. Included as the “Epilogue” in 1951 and later editions of Mises’s Socialism (Yale, 1951; Jonathan Cape, 1969; and Liberty Fund, 1981).
• Opitz, Edmund A., ed. Leviathan at War. Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., 1995.
• Ortega y Gasset, José. The Revolt of the Masses (Spanish original, 1930; authorized English translation, 1932). New York: W. W. Norton, 1993.
• Röpke, Wilhelm. The Social Crisis of Our Time (German original, 1942; English translation, 1950). Introduction by William F. Campbell, foreword by Russell Kirk. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1992.
• ———. Welfare, Freedom and Inflation. Foreword by Roger A. Freeman, introduction by Graham Hutton. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1964.
• Rothbard, Murray N. What Has Government Done to Our Money? (1964, 1974). Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute/Auburn University, 1990.
• Rummel, R. J. Death by Government. Foreword by Irving Louis Horowitz. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1994.
• ———. Power Kills: Democracy as a Method of Nonviolence. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1997.
• Sennholz, Hans F. Age of Inflation. Belmont, Mass.: Western Islands, 1979.
• ———. Money and Freedom. Spring Mills, Pa.: Libertarian Press, 1985.
• Sowell, Thomas. Knowledge and Decisions. New York: Basic Books, 1980.
• Stolper, Gustav. German Economy: 1870–1940. Issues and Trends. New York: Reynal Hitchcock, 1940.
• Sulzbach, Walter. National Consciousness. Introduction by Hans Kohn. Washington, D.C.: American Council on Public Affairs, 1943.
• Taylor, Joan Kennedy, ed. Free Trade: The Necessary Foundation of World Peace (1986). Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Foundation for Economic Education, 1996.

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