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First published 1904

The Society of Tomorrow: A Forecast of its Political and Economic Organization

by Gustave de Molinari

New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904; Online Library of Liberty edition129 pages

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Author
Gustave de Molinari
First published
1904
Format
PDF and EPUB
Pages
129
License
Public domain by publication date.

The English translation, published in 1904, of the Belgian economist Gustave de Molinari's forecast of future social organization, first issued in French in 1899. He argues that many, if not most, public goods could be supplied by markets or by small decentralized governments, extending the free-market case he had made in earlier works.

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Gustave de Molinari was born in Liège on March 3, 1819 and died in Adinkerque on January 28, 1912. He was the leading representative of the laissez-faire school of classical liberalism in France in the second half of the 19 th century and was still… This archive holds 5 of de Molinari's works.

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  1. Introduction
  2. Prefatory Letter TO MR. FISHER UNWIN
  3. Preface THE LAWS OF NATURE
  4. I. The Motive of Human Activity.
  5. II. The Natural Law of the Economy Of Power, or the Law of Least Expenditure.
  6. III. The Natural Law of Competition For a Subsistence.
  7. IV. The Natural Law of Value.
  8. Chapter I Formation of Primitive Communities and the Conditions Necessary to Their Existence
  9. Chapter II Competition Between Primitive Communities and Its Results
  10. Chapter III Competition Between States in Process of Civilisation
  11. Chapter IV Decline of Destructive Competition
  12. Chapter V Why the State of War Continues When It No Longer Fulfils a Purpose
  13. Chapter VI Consequences of the Perpetuation of the State of War
  14. Chapter I The Collective Guarantee of the Security of Nations
  15. Chapter II The Free Constitution of Nationality
  16. Chapter III Free Constitution of Governments and Their Natural Functions
  17. Chapter IV Free Constitution of Governments and Their Natural Functions (continued)
  18. Chapter V Free Constitution of Governments and Their Natural Functions (continued)
  19. Chapter VI Subjection and Sovereignty of the Individual
  20. Chapter VII Impost and Contribution
  21. Chapter VIII Production of Articles of Naturally Individual Consumption
  22. Chapter IX Equilibrium of Production and Consumption
  23. Chapter X Distribution of Products and the Share of Capital in the Proceeds of Production
  24. Chapter XI Distribution of Products and the Share of Labour in the Proceeds of Production
  25. Chapter XII The Problem of Population
  26. Chapter XIII Consumption
  27. Chapter XIV The Expansion of Civilisation
  28. Chapter XV Summary and Conclusion
  29. Note A The Czar and Disarmament
  30. (written 1899-1900)
  31. Note C Effects of Industrial Progress on the Sphere of Production
  32. Note D Costs and Profits of State Colonisation
  33. Note E The Economic and Socialist Conceptions of the Society of the Future
  34. Appendix, by Edward Atkinson The Cost to the United States of War and of Preparation for War from 1898 to 1904.
  35. By Edward Atkinson, LL.D., Ph.D. I
  36. COMPUTATION TO JUNE 30, 1904 (Extended on Government Estimates, to June 30, 1905)
  37. II RELATIVE TAXATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, IN FRANCE, AND IN GERMANY, AS COMPARED WITH THE UNITED STATES
  38. About Liberty Fund
  39. The Online Library of Liberty
  40. Copyright Information
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