Indianapolis, IN, Estados Unidos : Liberty Fund, c2005.

xxxi, 171 p. ; 23 cm.

Introduction. -- 1. Liberalism. -- 2. Material welfare. -- 3. Rationalism. -- 4. The aim of liberalism. -- 5. Liberalism and capitalism. -- 6. The psychological roots of antiliberalism. -- Chapter 1. The foundations of liberal policy. -- 1. Property. -- 2. Freedom. -- 3. Peace. -- 4. Equality. -- 5. The inequality of wealth and income. -- 6. Private property and ethics. -- 7. State and government. -- 8. Democracy. -- 9. Critique of doctrine of force. -- 10. The argument of fascism. -- 11. The limits of governmental activity. -- 12. Tolerance. -- 13. The state and antisocial conduct. -- Chapter 2. Liberal economic policy. -- 1. The organization of the economy. -- 2. Private property and its critics. -- 3. Private property and the government. -- 4. The impracticability of socialism. -- 5. Interventionism. -- 6. Capitalism: the only possible system of social organization. -- 7. Cartels, monopolies, and liberalism. -- 8. Bureaucratization. -- Chapter 3. Liberal foreign policy. -- 1. The boundaries of the state. -- 2. The right of self-determination. -- 3. The political foundations of peace. -- 4. Nationalism. -- 5. Imperialism. -- 6. Colonial policy. -- 7. Free trade. -- 8. Freedom of movement. -- 9. The United States of Europe. -- 10. The league of nations. -- 11. Russia. -- Chapter 4. Liberalism and the political parties. -- 1. The doctrinairism of the liberals. -- 2. Political parties. -- 3. The crisis of parliamentarism and the idea of a diet representing special groups. -- 4. Liberlism and the parties of special interests. -- 5. Party propaganda and party organization. -- 6. Liberalism as the party of capital. -- Chapter 5. The future of liberalism. -- Appendix. --

Tomado de la solapa: "Liberalism: the classical tradition presents the theoretical and practical arguments for liberalism. The term comes from the Latin word libr meaning "free". Mises defines liberalism as the liberal doctrine of the harmony of the rightly understood interests of all members of a free society founded on the principle of private ownership of the means of production. The foundation of liberalism, Mises says, rests on an understanding and appreciation of the institution of private property, social cooperation, the freedom idea, ethics and morality, democracy, and the legitimate role of government. Liberalism is not a political party. The liberal program offers no special privileges to anyone; it aims at securing equality under law of everyone, so as to allow equal opportunity to all human beings to make their own choices and decisions. The role of government should be limited ro protecting the lives, property and freedom of its citizens to pursue their own ends and goals, so long as they do not interfere with the equal freedom of others. In this book, Mises contrasts liberalism with other conceivable systems of social organization such as socialism, communism, and fascism. He also more specific here than elsewhere in applying the liberal program to economic policy, domestic and foreign." --

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