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A

Adler, Max, 86

Agricultural Policy, 57

Altschul, E. von, 81

Anti-Marxism

anticapitalistic, 71

failures, 86

German nationalism, 83, 85–86

German recovery, 95

Germany and Austria movement, 71

infatuation, 88

Russian Super-Marxism, 83

scientific Anti-Marxism, 71, 94

Association for Social Policy, 43, 51, 68, 72

Ausiaux, M., 61

B

Bagehot, Walter, 56

Banking School, 60

Bastiat, Claude Frédéric, 75

Bendixen, Friedrich, 60

Bentham, Jeremy, 34

Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen von, 44, 58, 62, 69, 73

Brentano, Lujo

academic socialism, 44

Agricultural Policy, 57

Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen von, 58

Brentano School, 46–49

Brentano-Webb doctrine, 62

Capital and Interest, 58

collective bargaining, 61

Economics After the War, 44

Empirical-Realistic School, 59

Festschrift, 44, 62

labor-union doctrines, 20

mentality of officialdom, 51

Methodenstreit, 59

Schmoller School, 59

Socialists of the Chair, 69

theoretical economics, 19, 68

Buckle, Henry Thomas, 74

C

Capital and Interest (Böhm-Bawerk), 58

capital formation, 39, 63

capitalism

alternative, 29

Anti-Marxism, 71, 94

Clark, John Maurice, 29

condemned, 20

corruption, 13, 52

Das Kapital, 87

etatism, 98

etatists and socialists, 15

failure, 16

Herkner and Wiese, 52–53

immoral and unjust, 20

intervention, 34

interventionist state, 13

liberalism, 52

Marx and Engels, 92

means of production, 45

Modern Capitalism, 87

productivity, 66

proletariat, 91

public opinion, 13

science of, 91, 93

social liberalism, 63

social policy, 63

socialism, 2, 17, 18, 106

socialistic critique, 88

Sombart, Werner, 87

syndicalistic social order, 63

third order, 2

unemployment, 16

cartels, 3, 12, 15, 40, 41, 105

Cassau, Theodor, 62, 69

Chicago School Libertarianism, x

Clark, John Bates, 24

Clark, John Maurice, 24, 25, 27–30

class war, 79, 81, 84, 91

classical liberalism; see alsoLiberalism, social liberalism

demise of, 12

discretionary power, 13

freedom achieved by, 17

impartial middle position, x

intellectual victory, 17

interventionism, 2, 34

limited government, 29

losing ground, 69

private property, 3

collective bargaining, 9n6, 11n7, 47, 61

Commons, John R., 4

communism, x, xi, 1, 21, 31, 53

Communist Manifesto, 46, 79

competition

cartel formation, 41

entrepreneurs, 29

equal conditions, 35

free, 3, 34, 35, 36

labor unions, 16

misunderstood concept, 3

prices and wages, 29

protection of handcrafts, 63

public opinion, 26

regulations, 3

Schmalenbach’s error, 40

social function, 53

social phenomenon, 35

terminological confusion, 35

D

Das Kapital, 87

Davenport, Herbert J., 24

Deumer, Robert

analysis, 108

capital and labor, 109

commercialized government enterprise, 111–112

credit monopoly, 114

credit nationalization, 107, 114

Deumer-Travers-Borgstroem, 108

nationalized banking system, 113

private interests, 108

socialistic command system, 109

subjective judgment, 110

summation, 115

Dietzel, Heinrich, 66, 73, 86

Dietzgen, Joseph, 86

division of labor

liberalism, 45, 54

Marx, Karl, 59

private property order, 3, 77

private property, 14

private v. public, 106

productivity of labor, 75

public property order, 3

public property system, 18

Smith, Adam, 75

social intervention, 11

Socialists of the Chair, 6, 53, 59

Sombart, Werner, 92

utilitarianism, 78

E

Economics After the War, 44, 56

Economics, x

Economy, Economics and Economic Method, 72

Ehrenberg, Richard, 66

Empirical-Realistic School, 23, 59

entrepreneurs

capital consumption, 10–11, 105

competition, 29

corruption, 12

demand and supply, 27

etatists, 80

freedom, 15

government controls, 8

interventionism, 1, 4, 7, 14, 24

laws of the market, 17

means of production, 17, 106

nationalization, 106

restrictions, 13

supplying the markets, 15

wage boost, 63, 104–105

Erfurt Program, 46

etatism

Deumer, Robert, 115

German, 69, 95

Kautsky, Karl, 48

Knapp, Georg Friedrich, 48

labor demands, 47

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 48

Marx, Karl, 59

Marxian reality, 98

practical policy, 99

Prussian, 64, 66, 67

Schmoller, Gustav von, 31

social ideals, 46, 99

Socialists of the Chair, 46

state socialism, 45

welfare state, 83

Zwiedineck-Südenhorst, Otto von, 50

etatists

Banking School, 60

interventionism, 15, 60

interventionist laws, 12

Marxian superstructure theory, 80

protectionism, 48

quantity theory, 60

Social Democrats, 46, 65

social liberalism, 49, 61

socialism, 46

statism advocates, ix

F

Fabian Essays, 63

Fetter, Frank A., 24

Fischer, Gustav, vii

Fourier, Charles, 59

free competition, 3, 34, 35, 36

Friedman, Milton, x

Friedrich List, 10, 24

Fundamental Economics, 81

G

Gelesnoff, Vladimir Michael, 81

genuine controls, 101

German Historical School, 73

Gide, André, 59

Gossen, Hermann Heinrich, 24

Gottl, Friedrich, 19

Gresham’s law, 22

Gurley, John G., x

H

hampered economy, 34, 38, 42

Handbook of Social Sciences, xi, 8n5, 44, 72n2

Hasbach, Wilhelm, 18, 73

Havenstein, Rudolf, 60

Hayek, Friedrich August von, vii, x

Helfferich, Karl, 60

Herkner, Heinrich, 43, 49, 50–52, 58, 59

Hilferding, Rudolf, 60

Historical-Realistic School, 21, 43, 54

Historical-Realistic-Social School, 20

History of Economics and Socialism, 58, 58n36

Humboldt, Wilhelm, 34

Hume, David, 34

I

interventionism

apology for, 36

arguments against, 31

basic questions, 30

catallactics, 19

Clark, John Maurice, 24

Commons, John R., 4

conclusions of economics, 34

consequences of, 12, 41

constructive economic policy, 34

crisis of, 15

doctrine of, 16

economic policy, xi, 1

eight-hour workday, 31

enforcement, 14

failure of, 12

German, 24

government intervention, ix

hampered economy, 38

hampered market order, xi

historical and practical arguments for, 21

labor productivity, 37

laissez passer, 37

modern subjective economics, 19

nature of, 2

new economic order, 42

overexpansion and immobilization, 114

price controls, 99

price, 7, 99

private property, 1

problems of, 22, 24, 42

productive interventionism, 36

productivity loss, 15

public opinion, 13

question of degree, 28

refutation of, 36

theory of price controls, 99

theory of, 4

third order, 2

unemployment, 9

United States academia, 24

unsuitable and illogical, 42

wage policies of labor, 20

J

Jevons, William Stanley, 72

Jourdain, Philip Edward Bertrand, 57

K

Kant, Immanuel, 76

Kautsky, Karl, 48, 87

Knapp, Georg Friedrich, 48, 66

Knight, Frank, x

Kritik des Interventionismus, vii

L

laissez passer, 2, 29, 37

Lampe, John R., 36, 37

Lassalle, Ferdinand, 86

Laws, 94

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 48, 65, 92

Lexis, Wilhelm, 73

Liberalism; see alsoclassical liberalism, social liberalism

authoritative intervention, 62

capitalism, 52–53

catallactic system, 60

classical, demise of, 12

classical, x, 2, 3

constructive economic policy, 34

contemporary, 50

decline of, 21

discretionary power, 13

doctrine, practical, 97

etatist position, 61

freedom achieved, 17

Herkner’s view, 51

impartial middle position, x

intellectual victory, 17

intentions, 53

interventionism, 2, 34, 62

limited government, 29

losing ground, 69

Manchesterism, 63

Marxism doctrine, 98

misconceptions, 51

modern liberalism, 34

old, 2, 50

opposing intervention, 17

private property, 3, 45, 49, 51, 69, 97

production, means of, 45

property problem, 55

social liberalism, 43, 49

social suitability, 50

socialism called liberal, 35

syndicalism, 45

Syndicalist School, 45

university teaching, 81

utilitarian sociology, 87

wage rates, 61–62

Weber, Max, 67

Liefmann, Robert, 19

limited order, 4

List, Friedrich, 10, 24

M

Manchester School, 53

Manchesterism, 63

market phenomena, ix, 23, 62, 98

market price, 7, 101, 103, 105, 106

Marx and Engels, 71, 72, 74, 79, 92

Marx, Karl; see alsoMarxism

Banking School doctrines, 60, 60n41

bourgeoisie, 64, 98

class struggle, failure to define, 79

collective bargaining, 61

critique and personal hatred, 58

Das Kapital, 87

epigones, 72

Historical School, 73

interventionism, 31

philosophical naivetés, 86

property, private and public, 59

radical economics, x

Samuelson, Paul A., x

scholasticism, 71

scientific socialism, 17

small and insignificant, 73

Socialists of the Chair, 72

solidarity of interest, 78

Sombart, Werner, 87

true science of capitalism, 93

university teaching, 81

Marxism; see alsoAnti-Marxism

antiutilitarians, 81n15

bourgeois science, 71

class society, 91, 92

class warfare, 92

Economy, Economics and Economic Method, 72

etatism, 69, 98

etatist critique, 74, 80

Fundamental Economics, 81

Gelesnoff, Vladimir Michael, 81

German historicism, 95

German sociology, 73, 79, 81

individualism, 86

interventionism, 2

Marxian blinders, 95

national problem, 82

nationalization, 91

non-western thought, 87

objectionable point, 94

proletarian socialism, 87, 90

scientific ground, 92

social doctrine, 76

social liberals, 61

Socialism and the Social Movement during the Nineteenth Century, 87

sociological theory, 93

Sombart, Werner, 87, 92

Sombart’s struggle, 94

means of production

Anti-Marxism, 71

capital consumption, 10

capitalistic economy, 112

catallactics, 17

Clark, John Maurice, 29

Communist Manifesto, 46

competition, 35

constitution based social order, 60

destructionism, 66

direct control, 45

economic policies, 63

economics, 17

entrepreneur, 112

Erfurt Program, 46

etatists, 46

goods of higher order, 5

government control, 104–106

government ownership, x

Herkner, Heinrich, 49, 52

Historical-Realistic School, 54

intervention, 4

interventionism, 1, 2

liberalism, 45, 54

Marxian-socialistic thought, 14

Marxist axioms, 91

middle forms, 106

modern liberalism, 50

nationalization, 74

nationalized, 28

partial socialization, 4

price controls theory, 99

price controls, 102

private property, 14, 16

property, 45

public authority, 49

public ownership, 1

public property, 17

social liberalism, 45

Social-Democratic program, 46

socialism, 45, 97

Socialists of the Chair, 53

socialization, xi, 55

Sombart, Werner, 89

state-socialistic thought, 14

syndicalism, 45

two systems of social organization, ix

unearned income, 51

Menger, Carl, 24, 44, 58, 59, 69, 95

Methodenstreit, 18, 24, 56, 59

minimum wage, 9, 27, 28, 104

Mises, Ludwig von, ix, x, xi

Mises, Margit von, vii

Modern Capitalism, 87

Moeller, Hans, 54

Mutualism, 107

N

nationalization

Brentano School, 48

credit monopoly, 114

credit, 107–114

Deumer proposal, 107, 115

Deumer-Travers-Borgstroem, 108

etatism, 46

Herkner, Heinrich, 50

intervention, 4

Marx and Engels, 74

Marxism, 91

production and consumption, 105

purchasing power, 114

Social-Democratic program, 46

Socialists of the Chair, 46

war economy, 102

Nationalization of Credit, The, vii

New Economic Policy, xi, 1, 65

O

Oppenheimer, Franz, 19

Outlines of Social Economics, 44

P

Palyi, Melchior, 61

Passow, Richard, 52, 66

Philippovich, Eugen von, 18

Plato, 94

Pohle, Ludwig, 20, 61, 62, 66

Pribram, Karl, 86

price controls, 8n5, 9, 100, 102, 105

price intervention, 7, 8, 24, 25

price structure, 5, 5n3

principle of association, 75, 78, 79

private property

abolition, 4, 77

American aspirations, 69

American system, x

Anti-Marxism, 71

Clark, John Maurice, 30

classical liberalism, 3, 29

command system, 111

consequences of interventionism, 2

destructionism, 66

division of labor, 14

etatism, 46, 55, 60, 98–99

etatist doctrine, 98

etatist objectives, 54

Fabian Essays,63

failure of reality, 108

foundation for a society, 18

free competition, 34, 35

government intervention, 20

Herkner, Heinrich, 49

Historical-Realistic School, 54

individualistic reasons, 50

interventionism, failure of, 12

interventionism, xi, 1, 12, 19

isolated intervention, 8

labor productivity, reduced, 65

liberalism, 45

liberalism, contemporary, 50

liberalism, older, 50

limited order, 4

market influence on price, 106

market wage, 10

Marx, Karl, 59, 78

means of production, xi, 14, 16, 35, 46, 52

middle form, 106

nationalization, 108

preserving and securing, 2, 3

price controls theory, 99–102

public property v., 54, 77

Samuelson, Paul A., x

social order, ix, 52

social suitability, 50

socialist opposition, 90

socialization, 4

Spann, Othmar, 1

state-socialistic thought, 14

system of socialism, 42

third social order, 2, 3, 18, 54

unearned income, 50, 51

utilitarian socialism, 77

Webb, Sidney, 63

Zwiedineck, Hans von, 50

productive interventionism, 36–37

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph, 60n41

Public; see alsopublic property

authority, 36, 37, 49

business as public office, 46

conservative socialism, 45

consumption, 109

contempt for science, 20

economics, 19

enterprises, 108, 111–113

etatism, 45

expense, 14

interests, 108

interventionism, xi

morals, 13

nationalized, 108

occupation as appointment, 46

opinion, 13, 14, 26, 47, 114

ownership, 1

policy, 28

power, 104

private interest v., 12, 13

profit motive, 12

services, 113

state socialism, 45

support, 109–110

taste, 109–110

weal, 13

works, 29

public property

classical liberalism, 17

division of labor, 18

etatism, 98

harmony doctrine, 77

Herkner, Heinrich, 49

intervention consequences, 2

interventionism, 1, 4

labor productivity, 77

Marx, Karl, 59

means of production, 54

middle system, 18, 106

New Economic Policy, xi

price controls theory, 99

private property order v., 2, 106

socialism, 49, 97

society, nonviable, 55

Sombart, Werner, 89

third social order, 18, 53

unworkable, 18

Q

quantity theory, 22, 60, 103

R

rationalism, 67, 77

Republic, 94

restrictions of production, 5

Ricardo, David, 34, 72, 73

Rist, Charles, 54, 58

Rodbertus, Johann Karl, 59

Ruskin, John, 59

S

Samuelson, Paul A., x

sanctioning controls, 99

Schmalenbach, Eugen

capital intensity, 39

cartel formation, 41

fixed costs, growth of, 39, 41

hampered economy, 38

monopolistic power, 42

permanent inefficiency, 42

Schmalenbach’s error, 40

theories, xi

Schmoller, Gustav von

Brentano, Lujo, 19

German Historical School, 18

Hasbach, Wilhelm, 18

Methodenstreit,18

Philippovich, Eugen von, 18

Stolzmann, Rudolf, 19

Weber, Max, 19

Seligman, Edwin R. A., 24

Sennholz, Hans F., vii

Simons, Henry C., x

Smith, Adam, 34, 73, 75

Social Democracy, 49, 72

Social-Democratic Party, 47

Social-Democratic program, 46

social liberalism

corruption, 13

doctrine, 59

etatist position, 61

Manchesterism, 63

Marx, Karl, 17

modern liberalism, 51

syndicalism, 45

Syndicalist School, 45

terminology, 49

wage rates, 61–63

social organization, ix, 2, 3, 77, 105, 112

socialism

academic socialism, 44, 58

anti-capitalistic, 90

Anti-Marxism, 71, 83, 86

Brentano, Lujo, 44

capitalism alternative, 29

Christian socialism, 45

conservative socialism, 45

Deumer, Robert, 115

economic problems, 90

egalitarian, 31

etatism, 45, 46, 64, 98, 99

Fabian Essays,63

free competition, 34–35

German Historical School, 73

Herkner, Heinrich, 43, 49

Herkner’s liberalism, 51

History of Economics and Socialism, 58, 58n36

idea components, 89

ideological failure, 68

inevitability, 94

international solidarity, 85

interventionism, 2

limitation of the particular, 90

Marx, Karl, 17

Marxian socialism, 19, 86

means of production, 74, 106

middle of the road, ix, x, 9

military socialism, 45, 98

modern liberalism, 50

modern socialism, 91

national, 81, 81n17

nationalization of credit, 108

New Economic Policy, 65

political social ideology, 69

prerequisites, 65

price regulations, 102

proletarian ideology, 69

proletarian socialism, 87, 88, 90, 93

property, public and private, ix, 1, 2, 18, 42, 45, 49, 106

racism, 85

religious socialism, 98

Ricardo, David, 73

Schmoller, Gustav von, 31, 73

social ideology, 69, 89

social liberalism, 63

social policy, 64

Socialism and the Social Movement during the Nineteenth Century, 87

Socialism of the Chair, 45, 66, 68

Socialist School, 45

socialization, 65

Sombart, Werner, 64

Sombart’s position, 87

state socialism, 45, 80, 91, 98

syndicalism, 45, 45n7, 64

Syndicalist School, 45

terminology, 49

unrealizability, 2, 65

utilitarian, 77, 87

utopian, 78, 91

valuation, 90

war socialism, 102

Webb, Sidney, 63

Weber, Max, 66

welfare state, 83

Socialism and the Social Movement during the Nineteenth Century, 87

Socialists of the Chair

Brentano, Lujo, 46

catallactics, 59

control or economic law, 55

doctrines, x

etatism, 46

government interventions, 53

Herkner, Heinrich, 43

Lampe, John R., 36

Manchester School, 53

Manchesterism, 63

price controls theory, 99

private property order, 69

private property, 108

productivity concept, 6

Samuelson, Paul A., x

Social Democracy, opposition to, 72

socialization, 65

subjective-value theory, 57

wages, 44

Weber, Max, 66–68

Zwiedineck-Südenhorst, 55

Socialism and the Social Movement during the Nineteenth Century, 87

sociology

Anti-Marxism, 95

British, French, and American, 87

German Marxism, 73, 79, 81

liberalism, 97

Marxian materialism, 86

socialism and syndicalism, 69

utilitarian, 75, 78, 87

warfare, 78

western, 72

Solvay, Ernest, 61

Sombart, Werner, 64, 87

Spann, Othmar, 1, 79, 81n17, 86, 88

statist seeetatists

Stolzmann, Rudolf, 19, 73

Strigl, Richard von, 30

subjective-value theory, 57

supply and demand, 7, 28, 101, 103

syndicalism

Brentano School, 49

Brentano, Lujo, 46

ideological failure, 68

illogicality, 21

implacability, 45

labor, division of, 3

private property order, 18, 51

social ideal, 45n7

social liberalism, 44–45

social policy concept, 64

Socialists of the Chair, 46, 53

stagnancy, 69

T

Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe, 74

Taussig, Frank William, 24

Thünen, Johann Heinrich von, 24

Totomianz, V., 58

Travers-Borgstroem, Arthur, 107

Trotsky, Leon, 65, 92

U

unemployment

causes, 11n7

Clark, John Maurice, 27

Lampe, John R., 37

permanent institution, 9, 11, 15

scope and duration, 15

Strigl, Richard von, 30

transition friction phenomenon, 15

wages, 27, 30, 37

unemployment compensation, 11–12, 15, 16, 62

unsociability, 78

utilitarian sociology, 75, 87

utopian, 17, 78, 91

V

Vorländer, Karl, 86

W

wage controls, 9, 10

Wagner, Adolf, 60

warfare sociology, 78

Webb, Sidney, 63

Weber, Adolf, 20, 61, 62, 66

Weber, Max, 19, 20, 66–67, 67n54, 68

welfare state, 12, 35, 60, 83

Wertfreiheit, 20

Wiese, Leopold von, 52

Wieser, Friedrich von, 44, 58

Wolf, Julius, 66

Y

Young, Allyn Abbot, 24

Z

Zwiedineck-Südenhorst, Otto von, 50, 55

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