Index

Acquisition

of power, 210, 214–215

of property, 121–122, 125, 130

Action axiom, 228

Action Equals Reaction (AER) law, 263–264, 266

Actors. See Human action

Adams, John, 231

Aggression. See also Conflict

avoidance of, 61

vs. coercion, 344

defense against, 269

by government, 78–79, 245, 254

IP as, 281

law and, 130, 146

non-aggression principle, 61–62, 154, 317

against private property rights, 25

social norms and, 148–149

suffering and, 121–122

Alchemy, 362

Anarcho-capitalism

in Argentina, 111, 188

economic theory and, 232

in Europe, 41–43

Hoppe’s case for, 13–14, 34, 161, 256, 298–299

vs. minarchism, 38

Obox Planet, 44–45

Anarchopulco conference, 241

Andreski, Stanislav: The Work is Done by Others: Class Struggle and the Priestly Rule of the Intellectuals (1975), 76

Antisemitism, 305–308, 311–312

Apel, Karl-Otto, 14

Apriorism, extreme, 73–85

economic theory as empirical science, 76–77

government, destructive path of, 79–80

governmental aggression by, 78–79

money supply, 77–78

natural sciences, 75–77

praxeology, 74–75, 80–81

scientific method and, 82–83

Argumentation ethics

conscience and, 239

discursive law and, 256–258

ethics of, 142–143

etymology of, 265–266

extreme apriorism, 73–85. See also Apriorism, extreme

force of arguments, 266–268

freedom and, 60

happiness and, 60–61

Hoppe on, 37–39, 53, 60–62, 273, 342

human action and, 238–239

human nature, law, and, 117–132. See also Human nature

law and, 227–239

praxeological presuppositions of, 123–124

presumptions, 235–236

private property and, 97

rational argumentation, 271

rules and, 264–266

self-ownership principle and. See Self-ownership principle

socialism and, 43

social life and, 122–125

truth and, 123–125, 142, 326

Aristocracy, 346–347

Aristotle, 80, 206, 356–357, 359, 362

Articles of Confederation, 71

Augustus, Romulus, 251–252

Austrian economic theory

in academia, 38

anarcho-capitalism and, 232. See also Anarcho-capitalism

Austrian economy, 315–316

banks. See Banks/banking

business cycle and capital, 168, 175

catallactics, 101

causal realism, 319–333. See also Causal realism in economics

crime and, 241–254. See also Crime

in Czech Republic, 113

democracy and prosperity, 221–223

econometrics, 47–48, 321

economic forecasting, 93–94, 93 n.7

as empirical science, 76–77

Hoppe’s teaching of, 9–10, 19, 95–101

immigration, 178–179

immigration, economic effects of, 168

of metaphysics, 355–371. See also Metaphysics, economics of

methodology of, 173, 319–320

Milton Friedman and causal realism, 319–333. See also Causal realism in economics

Misesian, 3, 235

nominalism, 356–357, 363

philanthropy. See Philanthropy

philosophy and, 355–371. See also Metaphysics, economics of

positivism and instrumentalism, 321–323

prices. See Prices

realist tradition, 324, 356–357

salons and, 98–99

socio-macroeconomic phenomena, 78

spontaneous order and, 344

subsistence funds, 165–180. See also Immigration

survival of Austrian school, 95–96

taxation, 88–89

technology, history, and theory, 90–94

Austrian People’s Party, 316

Austrian Student Scholars Conference, 28

Austro-libertarian philosophy, 53, 103–112

Baader, Roland, 96, 100, 133–134, 257

Bagus, Philipp, 106, 303–314

Bankruptcy, 250–251, 337

Banks/banking, 35–36, 77–79, 90–91, 185, 187, 250–251

Barr, Jeffrey, F., 49–52

Bastiat, F., 141, 241, 282

Baykal, Caner (Jay), 47–48

Becker, Gary S., 169-170, 174, 242

Beltrão, Helio, 106–107

Benneman, Bud, 18

Bennett Institute for Public Policy Cambridge, 184–189

Benson, Bruce, 139, 147

Berlin Wall, fall of, 45

Bernanke, Ben, 187

Berwick, Jeff, 241

The Big Short, 34

Birth, 127–129

Bismarck, Otto von, 277-278

Bitcoin, 100

Blankart, Charles B. and Björn Gehrmann, 190–191

Blankertz, Stefan, 133

Block, Walter, 50, 173, 273, 282, 284, 286, 288, 308

Body ownership. See Self-ownership principle

Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen von, 25, 167, 328

Positive Theory of Capital, 167

Bouillon, Hardy, 133, 189–205

Bourne, Randolph, 253

Breach of contract, 199–200

Buchanan, James, 13

Burke, Edmund, 231, 297

Business

business cycle theory, 114, 167–168, 175, 178, 319

cancel culture and, 311–313

criminals in business world, 245–246, 250, 253

defamation. See Defamation law

hiring practices, 347

labor. See Labor

state influence on private companies, 306–308

Cancel culture, 299, 311–313

Capital

in business cycle, 168

criminal accumulation of, 246–248

cultural, 348–350

German capital market, 191

money supply, 77–79, 345

Capitalism. See also Anarcho-capitalism

capitalist exploitation, 63

clean capitalism, 64

free-market capitalism, 228

state culture and, 313–314

Carlyle, Thomas, 346

Carnap, Rudolf, 19

Carpio, Juan Fernando, 341–354

Cartelization, 206

Catallactics, 101

Causal realism in economics, 319–333

assumptions/abstractions, 326–327

existence and independence, 323–324

Granger causality, 332

human action, 325–326

instrumentalism, 329–330

logical deduction vs. observation, 326

Milton Friedman and, 329–332

philosophical realist doctrines, economics and, 323–328

positivism, 331–332

positivism and instrumentalism, 321–328

precisive and nonprecisive abstractions, 327–328

Censorship, 90, 109, 306–307, 312

Centralization, 335–340

Charity. See Philanthropy

Chicago School, 18

Chiocca, Fernando Fiori, 103–112

Christianity, 297–302, 304–305, 309

Churchill, Winston, 109

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 236

Class analysis, 62–63, 65

Clausewitz, Carl von, 254

Clinton, Hillary, 298

Club des Jacobins, 213–214

Coase, Ronald, 267, 345

Coercion, 344

Cold War, 338

Comparative systems theory, 228, 231

Competition

currency competition, 79

in insurance market, 144

IP and, 278

in market system, 242, 246–248

between political parties, 210–211, 215, 218

state intervention in, 336–338, 351, 358, 363

Conflict. See also Aggression; War

avoidance of, 120–121, 123, 125, 127, 139

class conflict, 63, 65

resolution of, 155–156

rules of, 263–268, 271

social conflicts, 256–258

state’s instigation of, 141

Consensus, 130–132, 144, 166, 169–172, 211

Constitutions

constitutionalism, 299

Swiss, 41

U.S., 71, 150–153, 231, 276

Consumer behavior, 285, 327, 350–351

Contract, breach of, 199–200

Copyright law, 276–279, 281–283

Counter-academia, 98–99

Covenant communities, 161, 283, 313

Covid, 43–44, 108, 110–111

Creative dissidence, 335–340

Crime, 241–254

from crime to legitimacy, 248–252

criminal organizations, 247–254

definition, 243–244

drug cartels, 250, 253–254

incentives to engage in, 242, 244–245

increasing marginal returns for criminal activity, 246–248

international law, warfare, and international organizations, 252–254

political and economic means, 243–244

psychopathological personality and, 245–246

robbery, 247, 249–251, 312–313

victims of, 245, 247–249

Crowd-funding, 191

Culinary Workers Union, 24

Cultural development, 303–314

cancel culture in hybrid society, 311–313

cultural capitol, 348–350

culture in absence of state, 311

how the state influences culture, 306–308

in hybrid society, 304, 308–311

indirect influence of state on culture, 306

natural evolution vs. state culture, 304–305

traditional family and, 304–305, 309. See also Values, traditional

welfare state, 162, 169–170, 274, 308

wokeism and antisemitism, 305

Curley effect, 206

Dach, H.V.: Total Resistance, 151

Dalton, Emily Hoppe, 7

Debate, public, 97–98, 114–115, 239

Decentralization, 146–152

Declaration of Independence (U.S.), 147, 152

Defamation law, 273–294. See also Intellectual property (IP) law

argument against laws protecting reputations, 290–293

reputation rights and, 287–290

trademark law, similarity to, 275

Deist, Jeff, 150, 159–164, 289, 301

De Maîstre, Joseph, 346

Democracy

definition, 211

failure of, 65–67

philanthropy and, 189–205. See also Philanthropy

political parties, abolishment of, 205–219. See also Political parties

prosperity and, 221–223

public law and, 373

time preference and, 183–188

war and, 374

wealth inequality scale and, 185

De Molinari, Gustave, 139, 282

Dialogue ethics, 227–228, 230, 234

DiLorenzo, Tom, 4, 48, 373–375

Discrimination objection, 190, 198–199

Discursive law, 256–258

Dissidence, creative, 335–340

Diversity, 337–338. See also Immigration

Diversity Immigrant Visa program (U.S.), 174

Doering, Detmar, 135

Donations. See Philanthropy

Duesberg, Peter, 21

Dun, Frank van, 227–239

Het fundamenteel rechtsbeginsel, 228

Dunbar’s Number, 352

Dürr, David, 255–271

“Discursive Law—Theoretical Foundation of Legal Interference on Social Conflicts,” 256

Easements, 282–283

Econometrics, 47–48, 321

Economic theory. See Austrian economic theory

Egalitarianism, 88, 234, 313, 346–348, 353

Elections

in Argentina, 45, 111

dissatisfaction with election process, 65–66, 184, 207

political parties and, 205–219. See also Political parties

Entrepreneurs

capitalist-entrepreneurs, 343, 345, 347–349, 351

crime and, 245

nominalism and, 368–369

realism and, 365

state, connection to, 307

Epistemology, 74–76, 80, 82–83, 130

Equal rights, 198–199, 244

Erhard, Ludwig, 31

Escobar, Pablo, 250

Estoppel, 143, 273

Ethics

argumentation ethics. See Argumentation ethics

of dialogue, 227, 234

of physics, 255–271. See also Physics, ethics of

of taxation, 88–89, 175–179

theory and practice, 126

European Union, 111, 254, 317, 335–340

Evolution

of culture. See Cultural development

Hayek’s evolutionary poison, 344

of individual, 263

of law, 260–261

natural, 304–305

Families, traditional. See Values, traditional

Feser, Edward, 357

Foa, Roberto, 185

Forbush, Deanna L., 23–26, 50, 165–166, 184

Foreign policy, 62, 72, 78–79

Fractional reserve banking, 250–251

France Libre, 210

Frankfurt School, 13

Freedom. See also Law; Property rights

argumentation ethics and, 60

of association, 66, 300–302

democracy and, 65–67, 221–222

of expression, 306, 311

free society, 115, 148, 309

against government assaults, 110

Hayek’s definition of, 344

justification of, 37–38

of movement, 159, 163

philosophy of, 137

politics and ethics of, 234

prosperity and, 222

Free market. See also Markets

Austrian economics and, 342–343

clean capitalism and, 64

comparative systems theory, 228

free market libertarianism, 60, 63

immigration and, 172–174

insurance companies, 144–146

invisible hand, 345

market failures, 277–278

state-owned enterprises and, 309–310

supporters of, 13

Free trade. See also Immigration

immigration and subsistence fund, 165–180

IP law and, 277–278, 281

Open borders, critics of, 159–164

French, Deanna, see Forbush, Deanna

French, Douglas, 23, 165, 183–188

French Revolution, 72, 213–214, 218

Friedman, David, 237

Friedman, Milton, 35, 103, 222, 251

causal realism and, 319–333. See also Causal realism in economics

Methodology of Positive Economics, 321, 329–331

Frisch, Ragnar, 321

Full-cost principle, 162–163

Fusillo, Alessandro, 241–254

Gabb, Sean, 4, 34, 59–67, 234

Gebauer, Carlos A., 133–136

German Donation Monitor, 196

Germany

Berlin Wall, fall of, 45

federal elections, 208–209

German capital market, 191

Green Party, 208–209

Third Reich. See Third Reich

warrior spirit, 31–32

Gertchev, Nikolay, 87–94

Gilson, Etienne, 357

Gladwell, Malcolm, 348

Gödel, Kurt, 235

Gold Coin Initiative, 41

Goods, 162, 169–172

Government

aggression by, 78–79, 245, 254

bad government and elections, 206–207

codes as source of law, 260

competition, intervention in, 358

crime and psychopathology from praxeological perspective, 241–254. See also Crime

criminal organizations as, 249

destructive path of, 79–80

indirect influence of state on culture, 306

initiation of violence, 112

interventionism and realism, 364–369

law without the state, 258–260

as monopoly of violence, 252–253

mugger state, 268–271

political parties, abolishment of, 205–219. See also Political parties

power of, 374–375

private property in state culture, 303–314. See also Cultural development; Property rights

protection rackets, governmental, 251

rule of law, 261–262

rulers, role of, 259

state ownership of land and resources, 161–163

taxation, 88–90

time preferences and, 186

Grand Narrative of human history, 28–29

Grant, Jim, 187–188

Grau, Oscar, 117–132

Great Recession, 35–36

Gresham’s Law, 358

Grillparzer, Franz, 336

Group selection, 146–150

Grözinger, Robert, 31–32

Grundnorms, 258

Guevara, Che, 42

Habermas, Jürgen, 13–14, 49, 61, 255, 258

Haffner, Tim, 137–156

Haller, Karl Ludwig von, 149

Hamilton, A., J. Madison & J. Jay: The Federalist Papers, 147

Happiness

argumentation ethics on, 60–61

material happiness, 189–192, 196, 198, 201–202

social cooperation as, 237–238

Harris, Ralph, 336

Hasnas, J., 150

Hausman, Daniel M., 329–331

Hayek, F.A.

Adam Smith and, 345

on business cycle, 168

classical liberalism ideology, 61

on economy, 74, 98, 319

freedom, definition of, 344

“The Intellectuals and Socialism,” 40

legal training, 25

The Road to Serfdom, 316

on socialism and utopia, 42

spontaneous order, 341–354. See also Spontaneous order

Hazlitt, Henry, 48

Hentoff, Nat, 288

Herbener, Jeffrey M., 27–29

Herodotus, 4, 21

Hierarchies, 346–348, 353, 360, 367

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 289

Homosexuals, 51, 70, 310 n.7, 313

Hong Kong, 221–223

Hoover, Kevin, 322, 329, 332

Hoppe, Gülçin Imre, 3–5, 20, 40, 47, 97, 100, 184

doctoral thesis, 47–48

“Ludwig on Mises’s Contributions to Economic Thought within the Austrian School,” 3

Hoppe, Hans-Hermann

on argumentation ethics. See Argumentation ethics

From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy, 299, 301

Austrian School of Economics, 9–10, 19, 95–101. See also Austrian economic theory

“Banking, Nation States, and International Politics: A Sociological Reconstruction of the Present Economic Order” (2006), 78

biography of, 49–52

“The Case for Free Trade and Restricted Immigration,” 160–161, 166–167, 309

in Czech Republic, 113–115

Democracy: The God That Failed (2006), 33–34, 50, 65–67, 81–82, 161, 185, 205–206, 222–223, 299, 316

“Economic Crisis: How to Make Them Worse by ‘Curing’ Them” (2011), 105

The Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy (2006), 73, 274

Economic Science and the Austrian Method (1995), 18, 75, 105–106

Economy, Society, and History, 27–28

Extreme priorism, 73–85. See also Apriorism, extreme

family life, 3–5, 7, 9–11

favorite quotes by, 373–375

foreword to No More Democracy and Mob Rule (Kreisky), 316

as freedom fighter, 5

on free society, permissible views in, 313

Hoppephobia, 159, 164

Hoppe Unplugged (edited by Thomas Jacob), 41–42

humility, 90–92

on immigration, 161–163, 171

as intellectual provocateur, 133–136

Journal of Libertarian Studies, editor of, 274

Kritik der kausalwissenschaftlichen Sozialforschung Untersuchungen zur Grundlegung von Soziologie und Ökonomie (Critique of Causal Scientific Social Research, 1983), 75, 320

love of learning and work, 7

on marriage, 24

“Marxist and Austrian Class Analysis,” 62

microeconomics course, 9–10

Mises and, 32, 74–75

The Myth of National Defense, 3

not revolutionary, 69–72

“On Man, Nature, Truth, and Justice,” 53

open borders, critics of Hoppe’s ideas about, 159–164

“Open Letter to Walter E. Block,” 173

philanthropy, objections to, 189–205. See also Philanthropy

on politicians, 5

Pope of Libertarianism, 59–67

as principled person, 49–52

“The Private Law Society” lecture, 28–29

The Private Production of Defense, 138

as professor, 18–20

Property and Freedom Society. See Property and Freedom Society (PFS)

on property rights, 24–25, 121. See also Property rights

Reisman, debate with, 341

Rothbard and. See Rothbard, Murray

security production, insights into, 142–144

Servus TV, Conversations in Hangar 7, 110–111

on spontaneous order, 348–350

“State or Private Law Society” (2011), 105

on theoretical compromise/gradualism, 108

A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, 18, 43, 342

truth, commitment to. See Truth

Der Wettbewerb der Gauner (The Competition of the Rogues), 242

Hoppe, Nick, 9–11

Howden, David, 165–180

Hülsmann, Jörg Guido, xi-xii, 4, 21, 43, 48, 50, 103, 133, 223, 308, 355–371

Huerta de Soto, Jesús, 103, 250

Human action. See also Praxeology

ability to learn, 74–76

action axiom, 228

aggression. See Aggression

argumentation ethics and, 238–239. See also Argumentation ethics

in Austrian economics, 325–326

concentric circles of social innovation, 350–353

crime. See Crime

human interaction, new model of, 350–353

humans as actors, 118–120

property and, 142–143

socio-macroeconomic phenomena, 78

universal forms of, 357

Human nature

argumentation ethics, law, and, 117–132

argumentation ethics and social life, 122–125

law, argumentation, and, 129–132

maintaining peace, 129–130

marginal utility theory, 195–196

morality and philanthropy, 200–202

property rights and, 120–122, 126–129. See also Property rights

rationality, 236–237

three-stage system of affection, 195

Human rights, 147–148, 229–230, 287–290

Human society. See Social life

Humboldt Foundation, 13

Humbolt, Wilhelm von, 201

Hume, David, 171, 195

Hybrid society, 304, 308–313

Iglody, Lee, 17–21

Immigration

in hybrid society, 308–309

market for, 172–174

open borders, 159–164

political consensus and, 169–172

quota systems, 170, 174

subsistence fund and, 165–180

Imre, Gülçin. See Hoppe, Gülçin Imre

Incentives

for criminal activity, 244–245

incentive structure, 242

Income. See Money supply

Industrial revolution, 72, 192, 276

Industry. See Business

Inflation, 78, 90, 185, 187, 251, 311

Inheritances, 176–177, 179

Injustice. See Justice

Instituo Liberal, 103

Instituto Rothbard (Instituto Mises Brasil), 104, 106–108, 112

Instrumentalism, 321–330

Insurance companies, 144–146, 150–153

Integration, 160, 309, 336–339

Intellectual property (IP) law, 273–294

categories included in, 280–281

copyright law, 276–279, 281–283

defamation law as, 291–292. See also Defamation law

defined, 274–275

evolution of idea of, 276–277

legal category, emergence as, 275–281

natural property rights and, 278

nonconsensual negative easements (servitudes), 282–283

opposition to, 277–278

patent law, 276–279

trademark law. See Trademark law

trade secret law. See Trade secret law

International law, 252–254

Interventionism, 82, 358, 364–370

Iorio, Ubiratan, 105

Israel, Karl-Friedrich, 319–333

Jacob, Thomas, 37–46

Jacobines, 213–214

Jefferson, Thomas, 147, 276, 279, 346

John Randolph Club, 274

Jones, Eric: “The European Miracle,” 337

Journal of Libertarian Studies, 33, 274

Judaism, 305–308, 311–312

Jurisprudence, 357–358

Justice, 122, 211–212, 216, 232–233, 344. See also Law

Justinian: Corpus Juris Civilis, 259

Kant, Immanuel, 74

The Critique of Pure Reason (1781), 80–81

Kantian Categorical Imperative, 142

Kantian philosophy, 61

Kataguiri, Kim, 108

Kelley, David, 288

Kelsen, Hans, 258

Kinsella, Stephan, xi–xii, 14, 25, 38, 43, 50, 51, 61, 93–94, 106, 143, 227, 242, 256, 258–260, 273–294

Libertarian Papers, 274

Kliemt, Hartmut, 227

Kreisky, Bruno, 315–316

No More Democracy and Mob Rule, 316

Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik von, 299

Labor. See also Business

business cycle, role in, 168–169

criminal activity and, 244

economic and political means, 243

hiring practices, 347

immigration and political consensus, 169–172, 175

intellectual property as fruits of labor, 278

Law

aggression and, 130, 146

argumentation and discursive law, 256–258

argumentation ethics and, 117–132, 227–239. See also Argumentation ethics; Human nature

codes as source of law, 260

of conflict, 263–264

defamation, 273–294. See also Defamation law

discursive law, 256–258

European, history of, 259–260

insurance companies and, 144–146

international, 252–254

jurisprudence, 357–358

law without the state, 258–260

legal positivism, 362–363

legal systems, 230–231

natural law. See Natural law

Natural Moral Law, 233, 238

private legal systems. See Private legal systems

private property legal order, 142–144

public law and democracy, 373

rule of law, 151, 261–264, 271

as social institution, 130

thin law, thick culture, 154–155

tort law, 292

truth and, 130–132, 235

Leadership, 212, 345–347, 350, 353

Lehmann Brothers, 35–36

Lenin, Vladimir, 72

Li, Teng, 297

Liberales Institut, 39

Libertarianism

in America, 59–60

in England, 59

medieval Christendom and, 297–302

pope of, 59–67

Libertarian Papers, 274

Liberty. See Freedom

Lichtschlag, André, 42, 134

Locke, John, 14, 232, 243, 278-279

Lucas, Robert, 320

Ludwig von Mises Institute. See Mises Institute

Machlup, Fritz, 278–279

Mäki, Uskali, 322–325, 329–331

Marginal utility theory, 195–196

Markets. See also Free market

capital markets, 77, 82, 191

for charity, 199

circles of innovation. See Spontaneous order

competition in, 242

crime in, 245–246

discovery process, 145

immigration and, 163–164, 169–170, 172–176, 179

insurance, 144

international, 221–222

for justice, 232

monetary interventions in, 358

nominalism and, 369

profit and loss incentives, 138–139

realism and, 367

Marshall, Alfred, 322

Martland, Keir, 301

Marx, Groucho, 39, 62–65, 233, 336

Marx, Karl, 42

The Matrix, 34

Maybury, Richard, 144

Mencken, H.L., 183, 185

Menger, Carl, 25, 98, 195, 196, 325, 344, 356

Investigations, 361

Principles, 328

Metaphysics, economics of, 355–371

interventionism, origins of, 365–366

nominalism. See Nominalism

realism. See Realism

state intervention in competition, 358

Methodological individualism, 63, 173

Michel, Christian: “Marxist and Austrian Class Analysis,” 33

Middle ages, 297–302

Milei, Javier, 45–46, 111, 188

Militia, 148, 150–156

Millennial, 184–188

Minarchism, 38, 41, 288

Mises, Ludwig von

Bureaucracy/Bürokratie, 138, 303

classical liberalism ideology, 61

economic theory, 3, 235

epistemological writings, 82–83

Hoppe and, 32, 74–75

on human action, 238–239, 356

Human Action, 38–39, 106, 228, 319–320, 324–328, 348

on human life, 118

Kreis, 98–99

as leader in libertarian thinking, 316

legal training, 25

Liberalism/Liberalismus, 146, 303

on population size, 237–238

praxeology. See Praxeology

private salon, 97

on property, 140

on rationality, 236–237

on scientific knowledge, 76

on subsistence funds, 167

The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science, 320

Mises Institute, 4, 23, 69, 227, 341

Austrian Economics Research Conference (2015), 53

1989 conference, 14

Instituto Rothbard and, 112

summer institute 2002, 87

summer university, 113

35th anniversary event, 53–54

Mises University, 37, 45, 48, 303, 341

Monarchy, 66, 70, 72, 149, 213–214, 218, 299–301

Money supply, 77–79, 345. See also Capital

Monopolies

government granting of, 276–279

government monopolies, 78, 132, 141–142, 144, 149–151, 153

of violence, 252, 300

Mont Pélerin Society, 39

Morality, 200–202, 230–231, 344–345

Morgan, Jason, 153

Morin, Gregory, 53–55

Mueller, Anthony P., 205–219

Mugger state, 268–271

Nationalism, 60, 335–340

National Socialist party. See Third Reich

Nation-states, 338–339

Nativism, 160

Natural aristocracy, 346–350, 352

Natural evolution, 304–305

Natural law

crime, 131–132, 243

Hoppe and, 29, 74

interventionism and, 366–368

in Medieval Europe, 149

nominalism and, 363

politics and, 163

Rothbard on, 14

Natural Moral Law, 233, 238

Natural rights, 61–62, 71, 126, 228, 234–235, 366

Natural sciences, 75–77

Nazism. See Third Reich

Nef, Robert, 133, 335–340

Negative easements, 282–283

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 135

Nisbet, Robert, 133, 346–347

Nominalism

in economics, 356–357, 363

explained, 359–360

implications of, 361–363

imposing costs of, 367–369

interventionism and, 364–369

inversion of values and, 366–367

vs. realism, 356–363

socialization of costs, 369

Non-aggression principle, 61–62, 154, 317. See also Aggression

Nonconsensual negative easements, 282–283

Non-profit organizations (NPOs), 190–191

North, Gary, 31, 38

Objectivism, 37, 288, 317

Obox Planet, 44–45

Occam’s razor, 357

Oligarchies, 206–207, 218, 252

One thousand Liechtensteins, 315–317

Open borders, critics of, 159–164. See also Immigration

Oppenheimer, Franz, 243

Original appropriation, 125

Original moment, 127–128

Ortega Y Gasset, José, 111–112

Our World in Data, 184

Overcrowding, 237–238

Ownership. See Self-ownership principle

Palmer, Tom, 283–284

Pareto efficiency, 191

Patent law, 276–279, 281–283

Peace, 124–125, 129–132, 140–141, 317, 336, 338. See also Aggression; Conflict; Property rights

Penrose, Edith, 279

Philanthropy

creative philanthropy, 191

discrimination objection to, 198–199

donor motives, 191

economic argument for under-supply objection to, 192–194

functional objection to, 199–200

historical argument for under-supply objection to, 192

moral objection to, 200–202

philosophical argument for under- supply objection to, 194–197

underprovision objection to, 190–197

voluntary vs. forced redistribution of material happiness, 189–199

Philosophie Magazine, 88

Philosophy and economics, 355–371. See also Metaphysics, economics of

Physics, ethics of, 255–271

argumentation and discursive law, 256–258

conflict rules, 263–264

force of arguments, 266–268

Hans, arguing with, 271

law without the state, 258–260

mugger state, arguing with, 268–271

rule of law, Chantecler and, 261–262

rules and argumentation, 264–266

Pina, Juan, 304–305

Pinheiro, Joel, 107

Dicta & Contradicta, 107

Pinkerton-samurai rule, 153

Plato, 97, 241, 356, 359

Political Economy Club, 17–19

Political monopoly, 141

Political parties, 205–219

abolition of, 210–217

banning of, call for, 215–217

candidates, choice of, 209

career politicians, 217

decision-making, political, 209

democracy and, 205–210, 211–212

division between left and right, 214

dominance as aim of, 217

election process, dissatisfaction with, 207. See also Elections

evils of, 213–214

political propaganda, 214–215

the Right, 298

Politics. See also Government

democracy. See Democracy

discontent with, 207

divisiveness of, 100

EU and Switzerland, 335–340

group selection, decentralization, and secession, 146–150

immigration and political consensus, 169–172. See also Immigration

party system, 209, 217–218. See also Political parties

political and economic means, 243–244

social conflicts, 256–258

trend towards greater control over individual choice, 60

Polleit, Thorsten, 73–85

Pope, Nathaniel, 176

Popper, Karl, 19

Population size, 237–238

Positivism, 321–328, 362–363, 365–370

Powell, Benjamin, 169–170

Praxeology. See also Human action

as advancement of human action, 105–106

argumentation and private property, 97

catallactics, 101

crime, governments, and psychopathology, 241–254. See also Crime

economics and, 74–75, 80–81, 93 n.7, 142–143, 320

justification for justice, 122–123

knowledge conveyed by, 119–120

term, introduction of, 99

Precisive abstraction, 327–328

Presumptions, 235–236

Prices

of assets, 222

in capitalist society, 351

government role in, 242

influence on consumer choices, 365, 368

money supply, 77–79, 345

of state-owned enterprises, goods from, 309–310, 314

Principled man, 49–52

Prisoners’ dilemma, 192–193

Private legal systems, 230–232

common law and, 284

establishing and defending, 154–155

private law society, 44

security and justice production in, 150–153

Private property. See Property rights

Progression-theoretical framework, 78–79

Propaganda

cultural, 306–307

economic science and, 77

IP and, 279, 281, 292

political, 214–216

in Roman state, 252

War on Drugs, 138

Property and Freedom Society (PFS), xi–xii, 4, 20–21, 24, 45, 87, 227, 242, 274, 316, 342

Annual Meeting 2016, 117

Bodrum, Turkey gatherings, 54

counter-academia, 98–99

first conference, 34–35

founding of, 40, 50

Hoppe’s 2013 speech to, 143

Hoppe’s 2016 speech to, 143

Hoppe’s 2023 speech to, 139

inaugural meeting, 48

Instituto Rothbard and, 112

organization of, 28

as place of practice, 99–101

as salon, 97

success, reason for, 41

women in, 100

Property rights

acquisition of property, 121–122, 125, 130

aggression against property, 25

Hoppe’s insight into, 24–25, 121

human nature and, 126–129

integrity of, 142–144

intellectual property. See Intellectual property (IP) law

justice and, 120–122

maintaining peace, 115, 129–130, 140–141

nonconsensual negative easements (servitudes), 282–283

ownership of property, 43

physical integrity, 288–290

private ownership, 64

private property, 97, 161–162, 164

public property, 161–162

scarce resources. See Scarce resources

self-ownership principle. See Self- ownership principle

spontaneous order and, 344

in state culture, 303–314. See also Cultural development

state influence on, 304

subsistence funds as property, 175–178

time preference and, 186, 352. See also Time

Prosperity, 43, 221–223, 342, 349

Psychopathology, 241–254. See also Crime

Public debates, 97–98, 114–115, 239

Public goods theory, 69–70, 82, 174, 176–178

Public property, 161–162

Pyramid-of-ability principle, 347

Quota systems, 170, 174

Raico, Ralph, 48

Rand, Ayn, 37, 41, 61, 103, 109, 185, 282, 288, 317, 347

Rationality, 236–237, 257–258, 264–265

Reagan, Ronald, 35

Realism

causal. See Causal realism in economics

explained, 359

implications of, 360–361

interventionism and, 364–369

vs. nominalism, 356–363

utility of, 364–365

Reinach, Adolf, 50, 360

Reisman, George, 287, 341

Reparations, 140, 172–173

Reputation rights, 287–293

Restitution, 140–141

Revolutions

American Revolution, 71

constitutionalism as invention of revolutionaries, 299

Cultural Revolution, 297

formalist revolution, 329

French Revolution, 72, 213–214, 218

Hoppe not revolutionary, 69–72

industrial revolution, 72, 192, 276

Russian Revolution, 72, 222

Richard, Olivier, 33–36

Riggenbach, Jeff, 38–39

Robbery, 247, 249–251, 312–313

Robinson Crusoe, 39, 43

Rockwell, Llewellyn H., Jr., 13–15, 73, 103

Rostand, Edmond, 261–262

Rothbard, Murray

on anarcho-capitalism, 42

Anatomy of the State, 150

comprehensive approach to libertarianism, 98

defamation law, case against, 288–289

“Egalitarianism as a revolt against Nature,” 347

epistemological writings, 82–83

on ethics, 61–62, 126

The Ethics of Liberty (1982), 228, 303–304

Hoppe and, 10, 13–15, 17, 19, 32, 49, 54, 74, 139

Hoppephobia, 159

on human life, 118

at John Randolph Club, 274

on law and property rights, 29

on luftmensch libertarians, 164

Man, Economy and State, 38–40, 319–320

Natural Moral Law, 238

For a New Liberty, 232–235

on prices of goods and services, 309–310, 314

on self-ownership, 230

state as organized banditry, 188

survival of Austrian school, 96

on union, 374

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 211, 216, 270

Rousseff, Dilma, 106

Rule of law, 151, 261–264, 271

Ruwart, Mary, 155

Ruyer, Raymond, 357

Salerno, Joseph T., 15, 103, 142

Salonia, Matteo, 297–302

Salons, 4, 97. See also Property and Freedom Society (PFS)

Sandefur, T.: “Four Problems with Spontaneous Order,” 343–344

Scarce resources. See also Time

charitable giving and, 199

goals of human action and, 118, 120–121

human nature and, 126–128, 243–244, 349

in paradise, 134

property rights in, 290

Robinson Crusoe, 39, 43

Schelsky, Helmut: The Work is Done by Others: Class Struggle and the Priestly Rule of the Intellectuals (1975), 76

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 339–340

Schumpeter, Joseph: Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1950), 211

Schütz, Rainer Ernst, 97

Scientific method, 74–76, 82–83, 363. See also Praxeology

Secession, decentralization, and group selection, 146–150

Second Seminar on Austrian Economics (2011), 104–105

Security production, 137–156

group selection, decentralization, and secession, 146–150

Hoppean insights, 142–144

insurance vignette, 144–146

non-aggression in private law society, 153–155

security and law in a private law society, 150–152

war, peace, and prosperity, 140–141

Self-determination, 146–150, 229

Self-ownership principle

argumentation ethics and, 14, 228–230, 234, 236

birth and, 127–129

control of body, 25, 121

crime and, 243–244, 248–249

property rights and, 143

Servitudes, 282–283

Šíma, Josef, 113–115

Slander, 289

Smith, Adam, 343, 345, 347

Smith, Barry, 50, 327, 360

Socialism

vs. anarcho-capitalism, 42

argumentation ethics and, 14, 228

in Austria, 315–317

economic theory and, 77, 82

interventionism and, 82, 228

Social justice, 189–199

Social life

argumentation ethics and, 122–125

concentric circles of social innovation, 350–353

Grand Narrative of human society, 28–29

hybrid society, 304, 308–313

norms, 139, 148

social order, 297–302

social structures, 341–354. See also Spontaneous order

traditional values. See Values, traditional

Socrates, 356, 359

Soviet party, 210–211

Spengler, Oswald, 346

Spontaneous order, 341–354

anti-egalitarian thinkers, 346–348

concentric circles of social innovation, 350–353

contemporary or popular anti-egalitarian thought, 348

defined, 343

human interaction, new model of, 350–353

meritful hierarchies and natural elites, 346–348

parallel “invisible motors” or parallel voids, 345

Say’s surplus, 347

shortcomings of, 343–344

Spooner, Lysander: Natural Law, 140, 282

State. See Government

Statute of Anne (UK, 1710), 276

Statute of Monopolies (UK, 1623), 276

Stigler, George, 328

Stromberg, J.R., 151

Subsistence funds, 165–180. See also Immigration

Sun Tzu, 139

Switzerland, 335–340

Taghizadegan, Rahim, 95–101, 133, 257, 316

Tannehill, Linda and Morris, 139

Tannenbaum, R., 345

Taxation

authority to levy taxes, 77–78, 150, 366

economic burdens of, 374

ethics of, 88–89, 175–179

government influence on culture through, 307

philanthropy and, 192–194, 196–197

public property and, 162–163

subsidies and, 206

tax load on property owners and producers, 67

taxpayers and tax consumers, 63

welfare systems and, 308–309. See also Welfare state

Technology, 90–94, 337, 339, 362–363

Thatcher, Margaret, 35

Theft, 247, 249–251, 312–313

Theodor Heuss Academy, 133

Third Reich, 210–211, 305–308, 311–312, 315

Thoreau, Henry David, 108

Thornton, Mark, 69–72

Thought police, 27–28, 51, 106

Thurber, James: “The fairly intelligent fly,” 335

Tierney, Brian, 299–300

Time

in mugger state, 268–269

as scarce resource, 243–244

time preference, 63–64, 70, 183–188, 342, 348–349, 352

Tögel, Andreas, 315–317

Totalitarianism, 96, 210–211, 213–214, 216, 258, 260

Trademark law

case against, 281–287

consumer confusion, 285

damages for violation of, 285–286

defamation law, similarities to, 274–275, 290–293

inclusion in IP law, 280–281

reputation and antidilution rights, 286–287

Trade secret law, 275, 280–281, 283–284, 292–293

Traditional values. See Values, traditional

Transmission Protection Instrument, 91

Trump, Donald, 188

Truth

argumentation ethics and, 123–125, 142, 326

assumptions, approximate truth of, 331

defamation, defense to, 289

Hoppe’s commitment to, 5, 19–22, 29, 32, 49–52, 87–94, 106–107, 303–304

human action and, 76–77

justice and, 211–212, 216

law and, 130–132, 235

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), 234

Universal knowledge, 254, 364–365

University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), 4, 23, 27, 51–52, 106

U.S. Constitution, 71, 276, 289

Valuation, 328, 349

Values, traditional, 246, 298–301, 304–305, 308–309, 346–347

Vedder, Richard K., 170, 174

Victims. See Crime

Vieira, Edwin, 152

Violence. See Aggression; Conflict; Crime; War

Walsh, Bryan, 184

War

Civil War, 155

civil war and party politics, 217

Cold War, 338

cultural, 304–305, 312–313

First World War, 338

international law and, 252–254

maxims of, 152–153

nationalism and, 336, 338–339

peace and, 139–141

Revolutionary War, 147

Second World War, 31, 111, 338

total war, 374

War of 1812, 155

War on Drugs, 138

warrior spirit, 31–32

Washington, George, 176–177

Washington, John and family, 176–177

Wealth

democracy and prosperity, 221–223

inequality, 349

material and cultural, 342

state intervention and, 43

wealth gap, 185–188

Weede, Erich, 134

Weil, Simone, 205, 210–217

“Notes on the General Abolition of Political Parties,” 210

Welfare state, 162, 169–170, 202, 304, 308, 362, 374

When Harry Met Sally, 54

Wokeism, 244, 305, 313

Wong, Peter, 221–223

Woods, Tom, 298

Wright, Steven, 54

Yeager, Leland, 14–15, 237

Yohe, James, 18