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Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market by Murray N. Rothbard

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Chapters

  1. Dedication345 words
  2. Introduction to the Second Edition of Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market by Joseph T. Salerno9,391 words
  3. Preface to Revised Edition3,168 words
  4. 1. The Concept of Action250 words
  5. 2. First Implications of the Concept1,776 words
  6. 3. Further Implications: The Means1,792 words
  7. 4. Further Implications: Time1,111 words
  8. 5. Further Implications A. ENDS AND VALUES5,182 words
  9. 6. Factors of Production: The Law of Returns1,575 words
  10. 7. Factors of Production: Convertibility and Valuation1,640 words
  11. 8. Factors of Production: Labor versus Leisure1,418 words
  12. 9. The Formation of Capital8,040 words
  13. 10. Action as an Exchange418 words
  14. Appendix A: Praxeology and Economics1,240 words
  15. Appendix B: On Means and Ends1,777 words
  16. 1. Types of Interpersonal Action: Violence1,682 words
  17. 2. Types of Interpersonal Action: Voluntary Exchange and the Contractual Society 73,044 words
  18. 3. Exchange and the Division of Labor2,397 words
  19. 4. Terms of Exchange1,367 words
  20. 5. Determination of Price: Equilibrium Price225,636 words
  21. 6. Elasticity of Demand26869 words
  22. 7. Speculation and Supply and Demand Schedules2,078 words
  23. 8. Stock and the Total Demand to Hold1,579 words
  24. 9. Continuing Markets and Changes in Price3,144 words
  25. 10. Specialization and Production of Stock2,730 words
  26. 11. Types of Exchangeable Goods2,481 words
  27. 12. Property: The Appropriation of Raw Land1,954 words
  28. 13. Enforcement Against Invasion of Property5,609 words
  29. Chapter 3—The Pattern of Indirect Exchange14,977 words
  30. 1. Money Prices1,579 words
  31. 2. Determination of Money Prices2,082 words
  32. 3. Determination of Supply and Demand Schedules2,192 words
  33. 4. The Gains of Exchange1,398 words
  34. 5. The Marginal Utility of Money A. THE CONSUMER5,883 words
  35. 6. Interrelations among the Prices of Consumers’ Goods2,722 words
  36. 7. The Prices of Durable Goods and Their Services3,212 words
  37. 8. Welfare Comparisons and the Ultimate Satisfactions of the Consumer1,401 words
  38. 9. Some Fallacies Relating to Utility2,914 words
  39. Appendix A: The Diminishing Marginal Utility of Money. 3111,448 words
  40. Appendix B: On Value2,666 words
  41. Chapter 5—Production: The Structure16,497 words
  42. 1. Many Stages: The Pure Rate of Interest12,321 words
  43. 2. The Determination of the Pure Rate of Interest: The Time Market71,507 words
  44. 3. Time Preference and Individual Value Scales2,597 words
  45. 4. The Time Market and the Production Structure5,636 words
  46. 5. Time Preference, Capitalists, and Individual Money Stock1,711 words
  47. 6. The Post-Income Demanders1,363 words
  48. 7. The Myth of the Importance of the Producers’ Loan Market1,578 words
  49. 8. The Joint-Stock Company2,976 words
  50. 9. Joint-Stock Companies and the Producers’ Loan Market2,621 words
  51. 10. Forces Affecting Time Preferences367 words
  52. 11. The Time Structure of Interest Rates1,592 words
  53. Appendix: Schumpeter and the Zero Rate of Interest2,563 words
  54. 1. Imputation of the Discounted Marginal Value Product3,966 words
  55. 2. Determination of the Discounted Marginal Value Product A. DISCOUNTING3,687 words
  56. 3. The Source of Factor Incomes311 words
  57. 4. Land and Capital Goods2,550 words
  58. 5. Capitalization and Rent2,650 words
  59. 6. The Depletion of Natural Resources1,299 words
  60. Appendix A: Marginal Physical and Marginal Value Product. 500822 words
  61. Appendix B: Professor Rolph and the Discounted Marginal Productivity Theory2,317 words
  62. Chapter 8—Production: Entrepreneurship and Change15,662 words
  63. 1. Introduction140 words
  64. 2. Land, Labor, and Rent A. RENT9,266 words
  65. 3. Entrepreneurship and Income A. COSTS TO THE FIRM7,806 words
  66. 4. The Economics of Location and Spatial Relations1,728 words
  67. 5. A Note on the Fallacy of “Distribution”513 words
  68. 6. A Summary of the Market4,560 words
  69. 1. The Concept of Consumers’ Sovereignty A. CONSUMERS’ SOVEREIGNTY VERSUS INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY2,269 words
  70. 2. Cartels and Their Consequences A. CARTELS AND “MONOPOLY PRICE”7,358 words
  71. 3. The Illusion of Monopoly Price12,088 words
  72. 4. Labor Unions A. RESTRICTIONIST PRICING OF LABOR4,335 words
  73. 5. The Theory of Monopolistic or Imperfect Competition A. MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITIVE PRICE4,733 words
  74. 6. Multiform Prices and Monopoly2,182 words
  75. 7. Patents and Copyrights8,973 words
  76. 1. Introduction181 words
  77. 2. The Money Relation: The Demand for and the Supply of Money2,036 words
  78. 3. Changes in the Money Relation348 words
  79. 4. Utility of the Stock of Money849 words
  80. 5. The Demand for Money A. MONEY IN THE ERE AND IN THE MARKET9,264 words
  81. 6. The Supply of Money A. THE STOCK OF THE MONEY COMMODITY3,505 words
  82. 7. Gains and Losses During a Change in the Money Relation. 8111,284 words
  83. 8. The Determination of Prices: The Goods Side and the Money Side951 words
  84. 9. Interlocal Exchange A. UNIFORMITY OF THE GEOGRAPHIC PURCHASING POWER OF MONEY1,389 words
  85. 10. Balances of Payments1,168 words
  86. 11. Monetary Attributes of Goods A. QUASI MONEY424 words
  87. 12. Exchange Rates of Coexisting Moneys936 words
  88. 13. The Fallacy of the Equation of Exchange3,674 words
  89. 14. The Fallacy of Measuring and Stabilizing the PPM A. MEASUREMENT2,756 words
  90. 15. Business Fluctuations924 words
  91. 16. Schumpeter's Theory of Business Cycles1,280 words
  92. 17. Further Fallacies of the Keynesian System2,442 words
  93. 18. The Fallacy of the Acceleration Principle4,844 words
  94. 1. Introduction402 words
  95. 2. A Typology of Intervention589 words
  96. 3. Direct Effects of Intervention on Utility1,299 words
  97. 4. Utility Ex Post: Free Market and Government2,101 words
  98. 5. Triangular Intervention: Price Control2,402 words
  99. 6. Triangular Intervention: Product Control2,071 words
  100. 7. Binary Intervention: The Government Budget1,944 words
  101. 8. Binary Intervention: Taxation A. INCOME TAXATION6,759 words
  102. 9. Binary Intervention: Government Expenditures52 A. THE “PRODUCTIVE CONTRIBUTION” OF GOVERNMENT SPENDING6,153 words
  103. 10. Growth, Affluence, and Government A. THE PROBLEM OF GROWTH6,383 words
  104. 11. Binary Intervention: Inflation and Business Cycles A. INFLATION AND CREDIT EXPANSION10,722 words
  105. 12. Conclusion: The Free Market and Coercion459 words
  106. Appendix A: Government Borrowing771 words
  107. Appendix B: “Collective Goods” and “External Benefits”: Two Arguments for Government Activity14,271 words
  108. Chapter 1—Defense Services on the Free Market3,359 words
  109. Chapter 2—Fundamentals of Intervention5,634 words
  110. Chapter 3—Triangular Intervention108 words
  111. 1. Price Control3,022 words
  112. 2. Product Control: Prohibition823 words
  113. 3. Product Control: Grant of Monopolistic Privilege1,532 words
  114. A. Compulsory Cartels185 words
  115. B. Licenses496 words
  116. C. Standards of Quality and Safety1,252 words
  117. D. Tariffs1,867 words
  118. E. Immigration Restrictions1,177 words
  119. F. Child Labor Laws354 words
  120. G. Conscription153 words
  121. H. Minimum Wage Laws and Compulsory Unionism272 words
  122. I. Subsidies to Unemployment82 words
  123. J. Penalties on Market Forms451 words
  124. K. Antitrust Laws1,268 words
  125. L. Outlawing Basing-Point Pricing251 words
  126. M. Conservation Laws2,606 words
  127. N. PATENTS681,624 words
  128. O. Franchises and “Public Utilities”298 words
  129. P. The Right of Eminent Domain474 words
  130. Q. Bribery of Government Officials464 words
  131. R. Policy Toward Monopoly362 words
  132. Appendix A: On Private Coinage462 words
  133. Appendix B: Coercion and Lebensraum3,913 words
  134. 1. Introduction: Government Revenues and Expenditures489 words
  135. 2. The Burdens and Benefits of Taxation and Expenditures1,198 words
  136. 3. The Incidence and Effects of Taxation Part I: Taxes on Incomes A. THE GENERAL SALES TAX AND THE LAWS OF INCIDENCE8,326 words
  137. 4. The Incidence and Effects of Taxation Part II: Taxes on Accumulated Capital2,377 words
  138. 5. The Incidence and Effects of Taxation Part III: The Progressive Tax1,650 words
  139. 6. The Incidence and Effects of Taxation Part IV: The “Single Tax” on Ground Rent4,784 words
  140. 7. Canons of “Justice” in Taxation A. THE JUST TAX AND THE JUST PRICE16,509 words
  141. Chapter 5—Binary Intervention: Government Expenditures13,848 words
  142. 1. Introduction: Praxeological Criticism of Ethics858 words
  143. 2. Knowledge of Self-Interest: An Alleged Critical Assumption817 words
  144. 3. The Problem of Immoral Choices1,040 words
  145. 4. The Morality of Human Nature461 words
  146. 5. The Impossibility of Equality1,458 words
  147. 6. The Problem of Security790 words
  148. 7. Alleged Joys of the Society of Status1,119 words
  149. 8. Charity and Poverty896 words
  150. 9. The Charge of “Selfish Materialism”742 words
  151. 10. Back to the Jungle?676 words
  152. 11. Power and Coercion A. “OTHER FORMS OF COERCION”: ECONOMIC POWER2,332 words
  153. 12. The Problem of Luck295 words
  154. 13. The Traffic-Manager Analogy130 words
  155. 14. Over- and Underdevelopment345 words
  156. 15. The State and the Nature of Man417 words
  157. 16. Human Rights and Property Rights281,072 words
  158. Appendix: Professor Oliver on Socioeconomic Goals6,827 words
  159. Chapter 7—Conclusion: Economics and Public Policy3,806 words
  160. Bibliography7,766 words
  161. Index of Names2,448 words
  162. Index of Subjects7,423 words
  163. Books by Murray N. Rothbard378 words

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