Omnipotent Government. Людвиг фон Мизес

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       OMNIPOTENT GOVERNMENT

       Titles in the Liberty Fund Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises

       Edited by Bettina Bien Greaves

      The Anti-capitalistic Mentality

      Bureaucracy

      Economic Freedom and Interventionism: An Anthology of Articles and Essays

      Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

      Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

      Interventionism: An Economic Analysis

      Liberalism: The Classical Tradition

      Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time

      Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

      On the Manipulation of Money and Credit: Three Treatises on Trade-Cycle Theory

      Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work

      A Collection of Essays and Addresses

      Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis

      Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution

      The Theory of Money and Credit

      The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

       Edited by Richard M. Ebeling

      Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises

      Volume 1: Monetary and Economic Policy Problems Before, During, and After the Great War

      Volume 2: Between the Two World Wars: Monetary Disorder, Interventionism, Socialism, and the Great Depression

      Volume 3: The Political Economy of International Reform and Reconstruction

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      © 1944, 1974 by Liberty Fund, Inc.

      Foreword, editorial additions, and index © 2011 by Liberty Fund, Inc.

      Omnipotent Government was originally published in 1944 by Yale University Press.

      Front cover photograph of Ludwig von Mises used by permission of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama.

      This eBook edition published in 2012.

      ePub ISBN: E-PUB 978-1-61487-251-1

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CONTENTS

Foreword to the Liberty Fund Edition

Preface

Introduction

PART I: The Collapse of German Liberalism

CHAPTER I. German Liberalism

1. The Ancien Régime and Liberalism

2. The Weakness of German Liberalism

3. The Prussian Army

4. The Constitutional Conflict in Prussia

5. The “Little German” Program

6. The Lassalle Episode

CHAPTER II. The Triumph of Militarism

1. The Prussian Army in the New German Empire

2. German Militarism

3. The Liberals and Militarism

4. The Current Explanation of the Success of Militarism

PART II: Nationalism

       CHAPTER III. Etatism

       1. The New Mentality

       2. The State

       3. The Political and Social Doctrines of Liberalism

       4. Socialism

       5. Socialism in Russia and in Germany

       6. Interventionism

       7. Etatism and Protectionism

       8. Economic Nationalism and Domestic Monopoly Prices

       9. Autarky

       10. German Protectionism

       CHAPTER IV. Etatism and Nationalism

       1. The Principle of Nationality

       2. The Linguistic Group

       3. Liberalism and the Principle of Nationality

       4. Aggressive Nationalism