Organized Crime by Dilorenzo, Thomas J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Introduction: Austrian Political Economy Section One: Coercion and Regulation

1. Four Thousand Years of Price Control 2. The Other War 3. Who Will Regulate the Regulators? 4. Regulation and the Stock Market 5. Our Totalitarian Regulatory Bureaucracy 6. Antitrust, Anti-Truth 7. Antitrust Luddites 8. Socialized Healthcare vs. the Laws of Economics

Section Two: Politics and Thieves

9. Pay to Play: Why the Fuss? 10. Fed-ACORN Criminality 11. Price Gouging: The Real Problem 12. Farmed Robbery 13. The Founding Father of Crony Capitalism 14. The Curse of Instigationism 15. The State’s Media Lapdogs

Section Three: Centralization versus Liberty

16. Freedom and Federalism 17. The Origins of Nullification 18. The Real Meaning of the Fourth of July 19. Electing U.S. Senators was a Bad Idea 20. False Virtue: The Politics of Lying About History 21. How (and Why) the Lincoln Myth was Invented 22. Centralization Lets the Worst Rise to the Top 23. Death by Government: The Missing Chapter 24. The Birth of American Imperialism 25. Paul Krugman’s Politically-Correct “Civil War” Delusions 26. Grand Old Tyrants 27. Facialism: The New American System 28. In Defense of Sedition 29. Distorting History in the Service of the State

Section Four: Money and the State

30. Central Banking as an Engine of Corruption 31. States’ Rights vs. Monetary Monopoly 32. How Central Banking Hides the Cost of War 33. How the Fed Creates Unemployment 34. The Myth of a “Libertarian” Fed 35. The Myth of the “Independent” Fed 36. Why the Government is Responsible for the Sub-Prime Mortgage Meltdown

Section Five: Workers and Unions

Section Six: Truth and Lies about Markets

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