Liberalism: The Classical Tradition (1927) (LF ed.)
The great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises provides a concise and tightly-argued one volume defense of classical liberalism, focusing on the core concepts of private property, limited government, peace, and the free market. Liberty Fund’s edition of the work in the collection “The Works of Ludwig von Mises.”
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Liberalism: The Classical Tradition, trans. Ralph Raico, ed. Bettina Bien Greaves (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005).
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE, 1985
- PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE EDITION
- Introduction
- 1: Liberalism
- 2: Material Welfare
- 3: Rationalism
- 4: The Aim of Liberalism
- 5: Liberalism and Capitalism
- 6: The Psychological Roots of Antiliberalism
- LIBERALISM The Classical Tradition
- 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: The Argument 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 “Doctrinairism” of the Liberals
- 2: Political Parties
- 3: The Crisis of Parliamentarism 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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