Index

Absolutism, 31

advertising, evils of, 34–35

autocracy, 31

Bismarck, 20

Bonaparte, Louis Napoleon, 15

caste system, 4–5, 10

castes, viii, 13

conflicts of interest among, viii

hierarchy of, 29

privileged, viii

underprivileged, viii

class analysis, libertarian theory of, ix

class conflict, theory of, viii

class war, Marxist doctrine of, 8

class, theory of, viii

Cobden and Bright, 25

Colbert, 25

Common man

bad habits of, 36

in Galbraith, 34 n.1

in socialism, 35

inferiority of, 35

poor taste of, 36

superiority of, 43

Comte, Charles, ix

conflict doctrine, 25

supporters of, 20–21

conflict

among producers, 12

among wage earners, 9–10

between competitors, 7

international, 12

irreconcilable, vii, 1

among class interests, 7

between employees and employers, 23

of rightly understood interests, 14

consumer sovereignty, 30–31, 44

consumers’ policy (laissez faire), 10–11

continuous progress, doctrine of, 8

Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen, France 1789, 28

dictatorship of the proletariat, 31

Dunoyer, Charles, ix

economic growth, 32–33

economic nationalism 4, 24

economic theory, ignorance of, 21, 24

economics, epistemological foundations of, 18

education role of, 38

universal, in the United States, 38

equality biological, 27, 43

of all men, natural, 40

under the law, 5–6, 27

foreign trade, Ricardian theory of, 3

French constitution of 1793, 28

Führer Principle, 31

Galbraith, J.K., 34

government, change of

by peaceful means, 42

by revolution, 42

group interests, 2

groups nations, 2

races, 2

social classes, 2

Hegel, 20

high school, deterioration of in the United States, 39–40

historical evolution, law of, 8

Hume, David 15, 42

ideas, erroneous, vii

individual endowment, inequality of, in Marx, 28

interests

clan, vii

group, vii

harmony of, xi

long-run ix, 17

rightly understood, ix, xi, 23, 26

harmony among, 16

short-run ix, 17

Keynes, J.M., 22

labor unions, 13

labor, productivity of, 32

leftism, dogmas of, 28

Lenin, 20

liberalism, French laissez faire, ix

logic, Aryan, 3

Madison Avenue, evils of, 34

majority, guidance of by the elite, 46

majority, infallibility of, 41

Marxism, 2, 7, 8, 9, 19, 28, 44

class conflict in, 7

mercantilism, 11–12, 24

as philosophy of war, 15

mercantilist doctrine, 14–16

and war, 14–15

mind, logical structure of, 2

minimum wage rates, 22–23

minority rule, 42

Mises, Ludwig von, as a utilitarian, ix

moral law, as an imposed restraint, 16

Mussolini, 20

natural law, doctrine of, 27

nature vs. nurture, 38, 40

New Deal, 47

Packard, Vance, 34

Polylogism, 3

pressure groups, 12, 13

producers. See conflicts producers’ policy (protectionism), 11–12

proprietary class, 10

changing membership in, 10

protectionism

in agricultural nations, 12

in industrial nations, 12

rationalism, revolt against, 20

representative government, 31

liberal theory of, 42

ruling class, vii

Russian revolution, 43–44

socialism vs. capitalism, 44

socialism, attitude of business leaders to, 47–49

sociology of knowledge, 2

status society, 29

superior men, role of in status societies, 30

under capitalism, 30

tariffs, 6–7

Trotsky, Leon, 41

upper classes, corruption of, 43

utilitarian ethics and economics, 18

utilitarianism, ix, 17

Voltaire, 15

wage earners

solidarity of interests among, 9

See also conflicts

war, moral value of, 20