A Beautiful Anarchy by Tucker, Jeffrey -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction I. Social Media as Liberation

♦ Are We Oppressed by Technology? ♦ Power vs. People in the Digital Age ♦ Why Facebook Works and Democracy Does Not ♦ LinkedIn: A Tool of Human Liberation ♦ What Makes Twitter Great? ♦ Can We Quantify the Economic Contribution of the Internet? ♦ In Defense of Homeless Hot Spots ♦ The Race for the Coolest Stuff ♦ Regulators Take on the E-book ♦ The Death of File Sharing ♦ Two Views of the Internet ♦ Economics of the Timeline

II. Leave the Nation State

♦ How to Think Like a State ♦ The Regulatory State Does Not Like You ♦ Brazil and the Spirit of Liberty ♦ My Government Is Worse Than Yours ♦ Democracy Is Our Hunger Game ♦ Death by Regulation ♦ No Escape from the Mark of the Beast? ♦ Political Migration in Our Time ♦ It’s a New World, and America Is Not Leading It ♦ Peter Schiff on American Citizenship ♦ The Speakeasy Economy ♦ Protesting Government Digitally ♦ There’s No Such Thing as a Stable State

III. The Wrecking of the Physical World

♦ Government’s Idle Hands: Underwear Bomber 2.0 ♦ A Century of Cosmetics: Is the End Near? ♦ Are You the Next Prisoner? ♦ Take Your Bureaucratic Hands Off My Microwave ♦ How Government Wrecked the Gas Can ♦ How Government Wrecked Our Mowers ♦ The Great Lawn Mower Hack ♦ How to Ruin a Kid’s Life ♦ The Banishment of the Marginal Worker ♦ Unemployment Solutions Both Weird and Scary ♦ The Case of the Missing Low-Mileage Car ♦ It’s Treason to Disagree ♦ Is Taxation Voluntary?

IV. Commerce, Friend of Humanity

♦ Commerce, Our Benefactor ♦ The Wonderful World of Commerce ♦ The Warehouse: Beauty and Solemnity ♦ The Juice That Defied an Empire ♦ Five Pillars of Economic Freedom ♦ Greedy Governments and the Double Irish ♦ Wal-Mart: Victim of Extortion ♦ Economic Lessons of Silly Putty ♦ Jetsons, Episode 5,437: The Kroger Vending Machine ♦ A Hymn to Taco Bell ♦ Does the Market Preserve or Wreck Tradition? ♦ Who Moved My Juice Bottle? ♦ Put Those Kids to Work! ♦ Capitalists Who Fear Change ♦ Who Should Control the World?

V. The Love of Money

♦ The Great Monetary Debate ♦ Mere Mortals at the Fed ♦ The Fed’s Men Behind the Curtain ♦ The Fed Does the Figure-Four Three-Quarter Leglock ♦ Money and Finance as If You Mattered ♦ Money Laundering ♦ The Blessing of Falling Prices ♦ The Monetary Metal That Just Won’t Die ♦ Leaping Toward the Keynesian Dream ♦ Deleverage the World ♦ Money or Capitalism in Crisis? ♦ The Bizarre World of Plastic Fees ♦ The Transformation of Banking ♦ A Way to Soak the Rich ♦ Zero Percent Über Alles ♦ The Self-Expropriation of the Patriotic Millionaires

VI. Private Digital Societies

♦ History of the Club, Part 1 ♦ History of the Club, Part 2 ♦ Throwing Out the Old ♦ How to Think: Lunchtime Lessons ♦ Why They Hate Free Speech ♦ How Hunger Games Benefited From Online Piracy ♦ The Failure of Another Dystopian Film ♦ Violating Rights in the Name of Property ♦ The Lorax: An Allegory on IP ♦ Market Failure: The Case of Copyright ♦ ISPs Becoming Enforcers for the State ♦ Theory Comes to Life

VII. The Agents of Liberation

♦ The Genius of the Price System ♦ The Non-crime of Knowing ♦ The Economy Is Us: A Tribute to John Papola ♦ There’s No Such Thing as Too Much Liberty ♦ The Equality Obsession ♦ How Change Happens ♦ The Elves of Capitalism ♦ I’ve Tried but Failed to Become a Wine Snob ♦ The Mighty Return of Lard ♦ The Good News (for Animals) on Health Care ♦ Truth in Advertising ♦ Despair and the State

VIII. The Literature of Liberty

♦ What Is Laissez-Faire? ♦ What Is or Should Be the Law? ♦ See the World Through Bonner’s Eyes ♦ The Case for Danger ♦ Mencken the Great ♦ To Love the Unknown ♦ Spooner the Prophet ♦ The 12-Year Sentence ♦ What is America, Anyway? ♦ Conspiracies and How to Defeat Them ♦ Economics By and for Human Beings ♦ The Case for Live Blogging a Book

IX. Pirates and Emperors

♦ Iran and the Recurring Bad Dream ♦ What a Lovely Day for the Total State ♦ Nicaragua and Cold War Political Theater ♦ Victory in Iraq? ♦ Iran and the Prospect of Domestic Terrorism ♦ Elections and the Illusion of Choice ♦ The Difference between OWS and the Anti-Vietnam War Protests ♦ How Politicians Wreck the World

X. Epilogue

♦ Hayekian Moments in Life