Economic · Controversies by Rothbard, Murray N. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction by Gene Epstein Section One: Method

1. The Mantle of Science 2. What is the Proper Way to Study Man? 3. Praxeology as the Method of the Social Sciences 4. Praxeology: The Methodology of Austrian Economics 5. Praxeology, Value Judgments, and Public Policy 6. In Defense of “Extreme Apriorism” 7. Praxeology: Reply to Mr. Schuller 8. The Hermeneutical Invasion of Philosophy and Economics

Section Two: The Austrian School

Section Three: Property and the Public Sector

18. The Politics of Political Economists 19. Justice and Property Rights 20. Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution 21. The Fallacy of the “Public Sector” 22. Statistics: Achilles’s Heel of Government 23. How and How Not to Desocialize

Section Four: Taxation

24. The Myth of Neutral Taxation 25. The Myth of Tax “Reform” 26. The Consumption Tax: A Critique 27. The Case Against the Flat Tax 28. The Uneasy Case for Degressive Taxation: A Critique of Blum and Kalven 29. The Single Tax: Economic and Moral Implications 30. The Value-Added Tax is Not the Answer 31. A Reply to Georgist Criticisms

Section Five: Trade and Freedom

32. Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism, and the Division of Labor 33. Restrictionist Pricing of Labor 34. Mercantilism: A Lesson for Our Times? 35. Capitalism versus Statism 36. A Future of Peace and Capitalism

Section Six: Money, Banking, and Calculation

Section Seven: Criticism

48. Milton Friedman Unraveled 49. Paul Samuelson’s Economics, Ninth Edition 50. Heilbroner’s Economic Means and Social Ends 51. Buchanan and Tullock’s The Calculus of Consent

Bibliography Index