INDEX

A

Africa, 10–11, 16, 59, 142

agriculture, 6, 22, 33, 43, 75, 152

airlines, 154–56

Alm, Richard, 184

American Socialist Party, 28

Andrews, Matthew Page, 18

Aral Sea, 114

Argentina, 8

Austrian School, 163

Ayittey, George, 10

B

Baikal, Lake, 115

Baltimore, 150–51

bank, 11, 67, 75, 79, 134, 161–62, 164

    First National, 160

    national, 156, 159–60, 162

    Second National, 160

banking system, 27, 165

Bastiat, Frédéric, 86, 191

Black Book of Communism, The, 59

Black Sea, 61, 112–13

bourgeoisie, 61, 72

Bradford, William, 19

British National Health Service, 100–2

Brooke, James, 99

Brown, George T., 151

Brown, Jerry, 47

Bruce, Philip A., 18

budget, 44, 49–50, 98, 173, 176

bureaucracy, 87, 135, 174, 176

Bureaucratic Rule of Two, 44

bureaucrats, 27, 35, 40, 45–49, 55, 63, 86, 148, 160, 176–77

business, 4–5, 11, 24, 34, 39, 44–47, 70–71, 76, 108, 110–11, 126, 135, 140, 147, 149, 164, 166, 168–69, 172–73, 175, 178, 181, 187, 189–90

    big, 152, 156–57, 180

    private, 44, 47, 50, 66, 70, 172

businessmen, 45, 66, 153

Bylund, Per, 80

C

CAB. See Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB)

Calhoun, John C., 126–27

California, 47, 177

Canada, 94–99, 101

capitalism, 1, 10, 12, 19, 28, 31, 34, 38, 40, 43–44, 57, 63, 66–69, 71, 73, 108, 125, 148, 159, 165, 167, 169, 179–80, 182–86, 191–92

capitalists, 38–39, 56, 124, 139, 152, 160, 179, 188–90

Caspian Sea, 114

Cato Institute, 89, 175

China, 11–12, 16, 23, 37, 59, 62, 115–16

Chodorov, Frank, 127–28, 130–32, 136

Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), 154–55

Civil War, 165, 183

Cold War, 11, 59

Communism, communist, 43, 55, 59–60, 62, 67, 71, 74, 123, 173

Communist Manifesto, The, 68–69, 74–75, 90, 123, 127, 129, 159–60, 177

competition, 6, 34, 48, 50, 102, 142–44, 149–51, 153, 155–57, 174, 177–79, 181, 189–91

    fair, 152

Congress, 143–44, 148, 168, 189

Congressional Budget Office, 89

Conservative People’s Party, 83

consumers, 25–27, 34, 40, 46, 95, 120, 149, 155–56, 159–60, 163, 165–68, 174, 180, 182, 190

corporations, 36, 110, 134, 139, 143–44, 148, 151, 153, 156, 166–68, 174, 188

Cox, Michael, 183–184

credit, 75, 79, 159–60, 166–67

crime, 59, 62, 91–92, 140

currency, 79, 104, 161–63, 167

czars, 55

Czechoslovakia, 7, 112, 117–18

D

Dale, Sir Thomas, 18

deflation, 165, 183

Democracy in America, 86

Democratic Socialists of America, 137–38, 142, 180–81

Demsetz, Harold, 150

Denmark, 82

destructionism, 5, 85

E

economics, 23, 44, 65, 95, 154, 164, 168, 173

economists, 7, 16, 44, 88, 90, 108–9, 124, 135, 139, 154, 163–65, 183–84

economy, 6, 8–9, 11–12, 20, 23, 26–27, 32–35, 39–40, 43–45, 55, 63, 70, 75, 77–80, 88, 107–8, 110, 121, 124, 129, 139, 147–48, 160, 162–65, 180–82, 189

    planned, 9, 121, 160

education, 2, 39, 53, 74–75, 80–81, 103, 124–25, 141, 144, 174, 177–78

egalitarianism, 12, 39, 42

employment, 33, 36, 49, 126, 140, 143, 145

Engels, Friedrich, 69, 90, 159

enterprise, 10–11, 32, 34, 44–45, 47–49, 67, 70, 79, 118, 123, 150, 173–76, 180

environment, 107–8, 117

equality, 4–5, 12–13, 31–32, 36, 41, 68, 124, 178

Europe, 4–5, 57, 59, 77, 94–95, 102, 117, 125

F

Facial Justice, 41

factories, 4, 113–15, 144, 147, 177, 185–86

family, 20, 33, 53, 89

    abolition of the, 90

    two-parent, 91

fascism, 13, 60, 65–74, 78, 147, 166

Fed, the, 48, 156, 161–66

Federal Reserve Board, 148, 160. See also Fed, the

Federal Trade Commission, 156, 167

Feldman, G. A., 9

Feldman-Mahalanobis model, 9

Five Year Plans, 9, 112

Flint, 121

Fulton, Robert, 187–88

G

Gallaway, Lowell, 90

Gas Light Company of Baltimore, The, 151

GDP, 78–79

Germany, East, 7, 112, 118

Gibbons v. Ogden, 187

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 6, 103

government, 2–6, 8, 12, 18, 26–28, 32, 34–37, 39, 47, 49–50, 55, 57–60, 62–63, 66, 68–71, 75, 78–80, 86–87, 89, 96, 98–99, 101–3, 108, 110–12, 115, 118–21, 125–32, 135–36, 139, 149, 153–54, 159–60, 162, 164, 167–69, 171, 176, 178, 180–81, 187–89, 192

    employees, 46, 48, 50, 78, 126

    enterprise, 44–45, 48–49, 118, 174

    monopolies, 3–4, 7, 13, 39, 93–94, 105, 129, 150, 152, 155

    ownership, 4–5, 27, 112, 148

    planning, 25, 27, 53–54, 56, 63, 70–71, 134

    programs, 3, 33, 41, 55, 86, 90, 134, 144

    regulation, 11, 48, 63, 71, 147, 151

Gray, Horace M., 152

Great Britain, 4, 7–8

Great Depression, 154, 163

Great Northern, The, 188

Great Recession, 49, 148, 163, 165

Greenpeace Mexico, 120

Gulf of Mexico, 120

H

Hansen, Per Henrik, 82

“Harrison Bergeron,” 41

Hartley, L. P., 41

Hayek, Friedrich, 5, 7, 23, 26, 54–58, 61, 66–67, 74–75, 99, 102, 105

healthcare, 2–4, 47, 93–96, 98–100

    Canadian, 97, 100

    single-payer, 98

    socialized, 81, 99, 101, 103, 130

Heilbroner, Robert, 28, 148

Higgs, Robert, 153

Hill, James J., 188–89

Hillier, Laura, 97

Hitler, Adolf, 56, 65, 73, 131, 133–34

Hobson, John A., 191

Hong Kong, 11

Horwitz, Morton J., 109

hospital, 2, 94, 96–100, 103–4, 113

human capital, development of, 124

I

ideology, 11, 58–59, 62, 68

illusion, fiscal, 164

India, 8–9, 16

individualism, 69, 72–73

indoctrination, 74, 177

inflation, 5–6, 8, 161, 175, 183, 185

insurance, health, 81, 102

interest rates, 10, 79, 163, 168

Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), 156

“Iron Law of Oligarchy,” 35

IRS, 125–26

Italy, 66, 73, 75, 147

J

Jamestown, 16–19

Jews, 60, 74, 133

K

Katowice, 116

knowledge, division of, 25

Kolko, Gabriel, 156

Krugman, Paul, 139

L

labor, division of, 25

labor theory of value, 138

Lapin, Rabbi Daniel, 32

Lastrapes, William, 165

law, antitrust, 152, 156, 162

Lenin, Vladimir, 131, 191

Lensch, Paul, 72

liberalism, classical, 65, 68–69, 71

loans, 67, 148, 168–69

Losing Ground, 88

M

Mahalanobis, Chandra, 9

malinvestment, 163

Maltsev, Yuri, 6, 102–5

Maracaibo, Lake, 119

market, 8, 13, 26–27, 32–33, 35, 39–40, 43, 46, 80, 102, 138–39, 142, 145, 148, 159–60, 163, 166–69, 173, 180, 183, 189, 191

    free, 7, 20, 25–26, 32, 44, 48, 65–66, 70, 77, 82, 90, 100, 126, 141, 148, 150–51, 153, 160, 162, 167–69, 177, 179–81, 188, 191–92

Marx, Karl, 36–38, 69, 90, 123, 125, 128, 182

Marxism, 2

Maryland, 136, 151

Massachusetts, 19–20, 144

Medicaid, 94, 98

Medicare, 95, 98

Mein Kampf, 73, 133

Mencken, H.L., 35, 178

middle class, 67, 125, 129, 134

monopolies, 3, 39, 93, 105, 129, 131, 150–53, 155, 159, 173–74, 178, 187, 190

Motor Carrier Act, 156

murder, 23, 59, 61–62

Murray, Charles, 87–88

Mussolini, Benito, 65–69, 71, 73, 75, 131

N

National Currency Act, 162

National Recovery Act, 152–53. See also NRA

National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi), 73

New Yorker, The, 28, 148

New York Times, 99, 139–40

Nobel, Alfred, 78

NRA, 152–54

O

Obama, 3, 45, 169

Obamacare, 54, 93, 101

“Official 25-Point Program of the Nazi Party, The,” 73

oil, 33, 113–14, 119–20, 152–53, 189

Olasky, Marvin, 86

“one percent,” 57

Osterfeld, David, 22

P

Pao-Cachinche dam, 119

PDVSA, 119

Pemex, 120

Perón, Juan, 8

Petrov, Vladimir, 62

Pew Foundation, 2

philanthropy, 86–87

Pigou, Arthur C., 107–8

pilgrims, 16–20

Pitigliani, Fausto, 70

Poland, 112, 116–17

political business cycles, 164

politicians, 46–47, 50, 69, 78, 92, 95, 102, 105, 135, 144, 164, 177

pollution, 13, 107–10, 113–18, 120

poverty, 5, 7, 9, 12, 16, 26, 31, 45, 63, 88–92, 125, 145

price, 26–27, 33, 44, 46–47, 94, 141–43, 152–56, 174, 178, 181, 183, 188–91

    ceiling, 96

    controls, 8 10, 99, 163

private sector, 44–46, 48–49, 102, 172

profit, 17–18, 28, 34, 44–45, 47, 49, 67, 107, 110, 112, 139, 149, 151, 153–54, 160–61, 165–66, 176, 179–82

progressivism, 147

property, 2, 8, 11, 16–20, 43, 45, 68, 70, 75, 85, 109–13, 119–20, 123, 127–28

Puerto Rico, 140, 143

R

rationing, 47, 81, 96, 101

regulation, 5, 10–11, 36, 48, 63, 71, 75, 85, 98, 147–49, 151, 154–56, 162, 167, 169, 176, 183

Road to Serfdom, The, 4, 54, 66, 69

robber barons, 187

Rockefeller, John D., 181, 189–90

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 152–54

Rothbard, Murray, 21, 42, 48, 177

Rottenberg, Simon, 143

Rummel, R. J., 60–62

Russia, 6, 22, 31, 43, 55–56, 60–61, 65, 67, 73, 103, 112–15

S

Salvemini, Gaetano, 71

Sanders, Bernie, 2, 92

school, 9, 13, 35, 44–45, 63, 74, 80, 134, 164, 175, 177–78, 188

    private, 45, 48, 173, 175, 178

    public, 1–2, 75, 141, 149, 173–76

Selgin, George, 165

shortages, 47, 81, 96, 98–99

Smith, Adam, 25, 70, 72, 111, 164

socialism, 1, 3–13, 15–17, 19–23, 25–28, 36, 38, 40, 43–44, 53–56, 58, 60, 63, 65–72, 75, 77, 80, 83, 92, 95, 97, 99–101, 103–4, 108, 111–13, 117–18, 121, 123, 125, 128, 133–34, 147–48, 180–81, 183, 192

Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis, 5, 27

socialist, 2–3, 5, 7, 9, 21–22, 26–27, 31–32, 34–35, 37–38, 40, 55–58, 62, 66–67, 69–70, 74, 76, 81, 85, 90, 110, 123–24, 128–30, 134, 137–38, 142, 148–49, 157, 160, 166, 179–80, 184–87, 190–91

    international, 60–61, 66

    national, 60, 66, 73, 133, 192

Socialist Party USA, 137, 142, 180

Solyndra, 169, 175

Soviet Union, 4, 6–7, 9, 12, 16, 23, 43, 60, 62, 65, 102, 104–5, 112, 125

Stalin, Joseph, 65, 73, 131

Standard Oil Company, 189–91

subsidy, 144–45, 168

surgery, 41, 96–97, 99, 101

“survivor principle,” 44

Sweden, 77–82, 101–2

T

tax, 2–3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 18, 36, 45–6, 48–9, 77–9, 82, 85, 89, 94, 101, 107–8, 123–29, 134–36, 139, 162, 164, 171, 173–74

    Pigouvian, 108

    progressive income, 5, 13, 36, 123–29, 131, 134–36

taxpayers, 45–50, 71, 82, 91, 93, 98, 101, 126, 129, 134, 169, 172, 176

teenagers, 104, 138, 140–41

Thatcher, Margaret, 7–8

Three Years of World Revolution, 72

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 86

trade, 8, 33–4, 152, 154, 162, 187, 191

    free, 191–92

Trotsky, Leon, 38

trucking, 24, 155–56

Tse Tung, Mao, 22

U

Under the Axe of Fascism, 71

unemployment, 6, 80, 139–41, 144–45, 154

unions, 10, 49–50, 142–45, 149

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 48, 141

U.S. Supreme Court, 153, 187

utilities, 44, 48, 149–50, 157

V

vacations, 136, 172

Valencia Lake, 119

Vancouver, 99–100

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 187–88

Vedder, Richard, 90

Venezuela, 119

Venstre Party, 82–3

Virginia Company, 17–8

von Mises, Ludwig, 5, 28, 32, 38, 68, 85, 132, 180–81, 183

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., 41

W

wages, 8, 10, 35, 48, 107, 124–25, 138, 140, 143–44, 182–83, 186–87

    living, 137–38

    minimum, 13, 36, 137–45

war, 12, 32, 59–60, 73, 76–8, 88, 91, 164, 191–92

Wealth and Welfare, 107

welfare, 2, 5, 7, 13, 36, 45, 74, 78–82, 85–92, 124–26, 135, 144–45, 155, 182

Wells, Robin, 139

White, Lawrence H., 165

Williams, Walter, 142, 144

World War II, 4, 7, 65, 154

Z

zero-sum game, 139