A Socialist Empire: The Incas of Peru

Table of Contents......Page 13
Foreword by Ludwig von Mises......Page 5
Introduction......Page 15
1 The Hostile Environment......Page 23
2 The Dominance of the Past......Page 30
3 The Economic Basis of the Empire: The Principle of Population......Page 45
4 The Social Basis of the Empire: The Rulers and the Ruled......Page 55
1. Religion and Law......Page 56
2. The Ruler......Page 60
3. The Elite......Page 65
4. The People......Page 73
1. The Clan......Page 78
2. Collective Ownership of the Soil......Page 82
3. Agrarian Policy......Page 84
4. Distribution of Land and Livestock......Page 86
5. The Cultivation of the Soil......Page 92
6. The Order of Cultivation......Page 93
7. The Methods of Cultivation......Page 94
8. Private Property Among the Elite......Page 97
9. The Agrarian Community After the Spanish Conquest......Page 102
6 The Superstructure: State Socialism......Page 110
7 Demand......Page 117
1. Obligatory Labor......Page 122
3. Measures of Provisionment and Conservation......Page 125
4. Industrial Techniques......Page 128
9 The Equilibrium Between Supply and Demand......Page 144
1. Statistics......Page 145
2. Population Movements......Page 152
3. Administrative Organization......Page 156
4. The System of Compulsory Personal Service......Page 162
5. Economic Stabilization Through Stockpiling......Page 166
6. Transportation and Communication......Page 169
7. Sanctions......Page 181
8. The Survival of Trade......Page 184
A. The First Forms of Trade......Page 185
B. Local Trade......Page 189
C. Foreign Trade......Page 191
D. Money......Page 194
9. Characteristics of the Socialism of the Incas......Page 195
10 The Expansion of the Empire......Page 198
11 A Brief Survey of Inca Civilization......Page 208
1. The Effacement of the Individual......Page 220
2. The Heresy of Happiness......Page 227
1. The Invasion of the Barbarians......Page 231
2. Colonial Organization......Page 234
3. A Nation of Grown-up Children......Page 237
1. The Reductions of Paraguay......Page 242
2. Spanish Literature and the Utopians......Page 246
3. Historians and Moralists......Page 247
4. The Inca Vogue in the Eighteenth Century......Page 248
Appendix: The Historical Sources......Page 254
Notes......Page 291
Maps......Page 389
Bibliography......Page 393
Index of Authors......Page 437
Index of Subjects......Page 446