The Society of Tomorrow
In this vision of a future society, the Belgian laissez-faire economist Molinari suggests how many, if not most, public goods could be provided by the free market or by radically decentralized local governments.
The Society of Tomorrow: A Forecast of its Political and Economic Organization, ed. Hodgson Pratt and Frederic Passy, trans. P.H. Lee Warner (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904).
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- Author: Gustave de Molinari
- Editor: Hodgson Pratt
- Editor: Frédéric Passy
- Translator: P.H. Lee Warner
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Prefatory Letter TO MR. FISHER UNWIN
- Preface THE LAWS OF NATURE
- I. The Motive of Human Activity.
- II. The Natural Law of the Economy Of Power, or the Law of Least Expenditure.
- III. The Natural Law of Competition For a Subsistence.
- IV. The Natural Law of Value.
- PART I The State of War
- Chapter I Formation of Primitive Communities and the Conditions Necessary to Their Existence
- Part I
- Chapter II Competition Between Primitive Communities and Its Results
- Part I
- Chapter III Competition Between States in Process of Civilisation
- Part I
- Chapter IV Decline of Destructive Competition
- Part I
- Chapter V Why the State of War Continues When It No Longer Fulfils a Purpose
- Part I
- Chapter VI Consequences of the Perpetuation of the State of War
- PART II The State of Peace
- Chapter I The Collective Guarantee of the Security of Nations
- Part II
- Chapter II The Free Constitution of Nationality
- Part II
- Chapter III Free Constitution of Governments and Their Natural Functions
- Part II
- Chapter IV Free Constitution of Governments and Their Natural Functions (continued)
- Part II
- Chapter V Free Constitution of Governments and Their Natural Functions (continued)
- Part II
- Chapter VI Subjection and Sovereignty of the Individual
- Part II
- Chapter VII Impost and Contribution
- Part II
- Chapter VIII Production of Articles of Naturally Individual Consumption
- Part II
- Chapter IX Equilibrium of Production and Consumption
- Part II
- Chapter X Distribution of Products and the Share of Capital in the Proceeds of Production
- Part II
- Chapter XI Distribution of Products and the Share of Labour in the Proceeds of Production
- Part II
- Chapter XII The Problem of Population
- Part II
- Chapter XIII Consumption
- Part II
- Chapter XIV The Expansion of Civilisation
- Part II
- Chapter XV Summary and Conclusion
- PART III
- Notes
- Note A The Czar and Disarmament
- Part III
- Note B Syndicates Restricting Competition, or "Trusts"
- (written 1899-1900)
- Part III
- Note C Effects of Industrial Progress on the Sphere of Production
- Part III
- Note D Costs and Profits of State Colonisation
- Part III
- Note E The Economic and Socialist Conceptions of the Society of the Future
- Appendix, by Edward Atkinson The Cost to the United States of War and of Preparation for War from 1898 to 1904.
- By Edward Atkinson, LL.D., Ph.D. I
- COMPUTATION TO JUNE 30, 1904 (Extended on Government Estimates, to June 30, 1905)
- II RELATIVE TAXATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, IN FRANCE, AND IN GERMANY, AS COMPARED WITH THE UNITED STATES
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