Baltimore, MD, Estados Unidos : Laissez Faire Books, c2012.

xi, 444 p. : il. ; 23 cm

1. The role of intellectuals and anti-intellectual intellectuals. -- 2. The ethics and economics of private property. -- 3. The origin of private property and the family. -- 4. From the malthusian trap to the industrial revolution: an explanation of social evolution. -- 5. Of common, public, and private property and the rationale for total privatization. -- 6. Natural order, the State, and the immigration problem. -- 7. The case for free trade and retricted immigration. -- 8. Why the state demands the control of money. -- 9. Entrepreneurship with fiat property and fiat money. -- 10. The yield from money held. -- 11. State or private-law society? -- 12. Reflections on state and war. -- 13. On certainty and uncertainty. -- 15. The limits of numerical probbility. -- 16. In defense of extreme rationalism. -- 17. Two notes on preference and indifference. -- 18. Property, causality, and liability. -- 19. M.N. Rothbard: economics, science, and liberty. -- 20. Hayek on government and social evolution. -- 21. Interview with the Dayly Bell. -- 22. Interview with Philosophie Magazine. -- 23. The crazy world. -- 24. My life on the right. --

Tomado de Amazon: "No living writer today is more effective at stripping away the illusions almost everyone has about economics and public life. More fundamentally, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe causes the scales to fall from one's eyes on the most critical issue facing humanity today: the choice between liberty and statism. The Great Fiction, published by Laissez Faire Books, is an expansive collection of his writings centering on the theme of the rise of statism and its theoretical underpinning. Some essays have been published in mostly obscure or offbeat places, while others are new and have never appeared in print. Together they constitute a devastating indictment of the many forms of modern despotism and a sweeping reconstruction of the basis of state management itself. The title comes from a quotation by Frederic Bastiat, the 19th-century economist and pamphleteer: "The state is the great fiction by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else." He does not say that this is one feature of the state, one possible aspect of public policy gone wrong, or one sign of a state gone bad in a shift from its night-watchman role to become confiscatory. Bastiat is characterizing the core nature of the state itself. The whole of Hoppe's writings on politics can be seen as an elucidation on this point. He sees the state as a gang of thieves that uses propaganda as a means of disguising its true nature. In fleshing this out, Hoppe has made tremendous contributions to the literature, showing how the state originates and how the intellectual class helps perpetuate this cover-up, whether in the name of science, or religion, or the provision of some service like health, security, education, or whatever. The excuses are forever changing; the functioning and goal of the state are always the same."

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