The Economics and Ethics of Private Property

Title Page......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Preface to the Second Edition......Page 8
Preface to the First Edition......Page 10
Part One: Economics......Page 12
1.Fallacies of the Public Goods Theory and the Production of Security......Page 14
2.The Economics and Sociology of Taxation......Page 44
3.Banking, Nation States, and International Politics......Page 88
4.Marxist and Austrian Class Analysis......Page 128
5.Theory of Employment, Money, Interest, and the Capitalist Process......Page 150
6.How is Fiat Money Possible?......Page 186
7.Against Fiduciary Media......Page 216
8.Socialism: A Property or Knowledge Problem?
......Page 266
Part Two: Philosophy......Page 274
9. On Praxeology and the Praxeological Foundation of Epistemology......Page 276
10.Is Reserach Based on Causal Scientific Principles Possible in the Social Services?......Page 306
11.From the Economics of Laissez Faire to the Ethics of Libertarianism......Page 316
12.The Justice of Economic Efficiency......Page 342
13.On the Ultimate Justification of the Ethics of Private Property......Page 350
14.Austrian Rationalism in the Age of the Decline of Positivism......Page 358
15. Rothbardian Ethics......Page 392
Appendix......Page 410
Subject Index......Page 430
Name Index......Page 440