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For a New Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard part 16

For a New Liberty: page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19

Index

Please note: This index is from the original publication. This online edition does not precisely match the pagination of the original so there will be some discrepancy in page numbers.

 

Abolitionism, 15, 16, 302?305

Abortion, 107?108

Accreditation of colleges and universities,139

Acton, Lord, 31

Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolu­tion, 243

Affluence, as excessive in liberals' view, 243, 244

Aggression: collective security against, 267?69

Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 281

Agriculture, Department of, 262

Airlines, 75

Air pollution, 75, 256?42

Albanian-Americans, 151

Alcoholic beverages, 111?12

American Arbitration Association, 223

American Civil Liberties Union, 106

American colonies, 3?6

American Railway Association, 205

American Revolution, 1?2, 4?6

Amin, Idi, 289

Anarchy, 221

Anderson, Martin, 169n

Anti-Imperialist League, 18?19

Antonik v. Chamberlain, 257?58

Appeal courts, 226?27

Aquaculture, 252?53

Arbitrators, private, 223?25

Army, 5; involuntary servitude in, 81?83; standing, 82?83. See also

Conscription; Mil­itarism; Military-industrial complex; War

Articles of Confederation, 5

Atkinson, Edward, 18, 263?64

Atomic Energy Commission, 262

Atomistic individualists, 28

Automation, hysteria about, 243

Automobiles. See Traffic congestion

Austrian School of economics, 173?74; busi­ness-cycle theory of, 187?93

Bail, 89

Bailyn, Bernard, 4, 8, 83n

Banfield, Edward C., 137, 151?54

Bangla Desh, 269

Bank credit, business cycle and, 185?93

Bank demand deposits ('checkbook mon­ey"), 179?83

Banks (banking system), 77; business cycles and, 184; fractional reserve, 178?85. See also Federal Reserve System

Barnard, Henry, 125

Baron Report, The, 319?20

Baruch, Bernard, 279

Bateman, Newton, 125?26

Beard, Charles A., 281

Benton, Thomas Hart, 7

Berlin, University of, 60

Big Business, 309?10

Big Government, in nineteenth-century, 10

Bill of Rights, 65

Birth control, 107

Bismarck, Otto von, 10, 18

Black, Charles, 65?67

Black communities, police in, 205

Black, Hugo, 94

Bourne, Randolph, 277?78

Boycott, 96, 224

Brehm, C. T., I45n

Brehons, 232?33

Bright, John, 264

Broadcast media. See Radio; Television

Brothels, 106

Brozen, Yale, 158n, 159, 163, 167

Bubb, Frank, 258

Buchanan, James, 140

Buckley, William F., Jr., 293?94

Burchard, Hank, 210n

Bureaucracy, 15, 126?27

Bundy, McGeorge, 59

Burnham, James, 54, 55

Business cycle, 183?93; Austrian (Misesian or monetary-overinvestment) theory of, 187?93; recurrence of, 186, 190?91; Ricardian theory of, 185?87

Businessmen: receptivity to libertarian ideas, 310, 312; small, 352

Bussing for racial integration, 131?32

Butler, Maj. Gen. Smedley D., 291?92

 

Calhoun, John C., 48, 52?53, 67

Calvin, John, 123

Carnegie, Andrew, 249

Cartels, 10, 11, 279

Carter, Jimmy, 319

Capitalism, liberal complaints against, 242?44. See also Free-market economy

Catholics, 125; abortion and, 107?8 See also Schools?parochial

"Cato's Letters" (Trenchard and Gordon), 4

Central planning, 199; failure of, 316

Cigarettes, ban on advertising of, 112

Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), 159, 256

Civil liberties, 23

Civil obedience, 54

Civil War, 8, 278?9

Charity Organisation Society, 147, 155-56 

Checks and balances, system of, 235?36

China, 272  286, 289; ancient, 56

Chodorov, Frank, 39

Christy, Francis T., Jr., 254

Church: divine tight of kings and, 64; sepa­ration of State and, 3, 5, 11; union of State and, 55

Class, social: taxation and, 52?53. See also Lower-class culture; Upper-class culture

Class action suits, air pollution and, 258, 260 

Classical liberals, 2, 6, 8,12?19, 315; decay of, 14?19; socialism and, 13?14

Club of Rome Report, 246?48

Cobden, Richard, 264

Coerced testimony, 86?87

Coercion, taxation and, 25?26, 47

Cohen, Stephen F., 288

Colby, William, 288?89

Cold War, 275?76

Collective security, 267?68

Colleges: accreditation of, 139; subsidization of, 138, 140; trustee-run, 139?40

Colonial America, 3?6

Common law, 228?30, 257, 258

Communism (Communist movement): Cold War and, 275?76; right of self-ownership and, 29; schisms in, 287. See also Marxism-Leninism

Connecticut, 123

Conquest, origin of the State by, 63?64

Conscription, as involuntary servitude, 23?25, 79?81

Conservation of resources, 247?54

Conservatism (Conservatives): military-in­dustrial complex and, 279?80; nineteenth-century,9?12;pornography and, 103?105; receptivity to libertarian ideas, 309; social­ism and, 13; tax cuts and, 306; welfare sys­tem criticized by, 154?55

Conspiracy theory of history, 57

Constitution, U.S., 48

Constitutions, written, 48?49

Consumer demand, money supply and, 175

Consumption/investment (or savings), busi­ness cycle and, 187?93

Contempt of court, 89

Contraception, 107

Corporate State, 10

Courts: air pollution and, 257?59; in ancient Ireland, 231?33; appeal, 226?27; broadcast media and, 101-102; common law, 228?30; enforcement of decisions of, in a liber­tarian society, 225; legal code and, in a libertarian society, 227?34; in a libertarian society, 222?34; private arbitration as al­ternative to, 223?25; venal and biased, 234?36. Sec also Judicial system

Credit expansion. See Bank credit

Crime, 41, 318; in New York City, 197, 201?202, 204, 205; society and, 38?39; in the streets, 74 (see also Streets?police protec­tion of); victimless, 23, 105, 113. See also Judi­cial system; Juvenile delinquency; Police

Criminals: imprisonment of, 87?89; punish­ment of, 87?88; restitution to victim by, 45?46, 88; wiretapping of suspected, 108?109

Crisis situations, 312?13; in the United States, 317

Crocker, Thomas D., 262n

Crowther Committee, 137

Cuba, 272

Culture, public welfare and, 151?54

Cycles, business. See Business cycles

Dales, J. H., 262n

Day-care centers, 156?57

Death rates, lower-class, 152

Declaration of Independence, 3

Defense, national, 237?41

De Jouvenel, Bertrand, 56, 64

Demand deposits ("checkbook money"),179-83

Democracy, 13; parliamentary, 64

Democratic party, 6, 7; as classical liberal party, 18; 1844 presidential nomination and, 7?8

Demonstrations, 96?97

Depression, 185, 186; in Austrian (Misesian) theory, 189?93. See also Great Depression; Recession

Destatization, plans for, 306?307

DeVany, A., 103n

Devletoglou, Nicos E., 140

Diem, Ngo Dinh, 273

Disarmament, 292?94

Discrimination, 206?207

Divine right of kings, 59?64

Doenecke, Justus D., 274n

Doeringer, Peter, 153

Dolan, Edwin G., 255?56

Donahue, Charles, 233n

Dos Passos, John, 281?82

Drugs, 111?12

Dyckman, John, 210

 

Eastern Europe, 316; Soviet policy toward, 285?87

Economic determinism, 57, 58

Economic growth, liberal attacks on, 243?47

Economics: Austrian School of, 173?74, 187?93; free-market, 16; Keynesian (see Keynesian economics)

Economy: classical liberalism and, 2?3; free market, 24, 39?42

Education, 12, 76?77,119?41; formal schooling confused with, 120?21; higher, 133, 138?41; libertarian movement and, 297?99, 308?309; "right" to, 134. See also Schools

Emotivists, 26

Empire, classical liberals and, 17?18. See also Imperialism

Energy, 249

England: Norman conquest of, 64; private arbitration in, 224; private roads in 213

English Revolution, 2, 3

Ennis, Bruce, 91?92

Equality, 42; socialism and, 13

"Essex Junto," 129

Ethnic minorities, public schools and, 124?25 

Evolutionism (social Darwinism), 16?17

Excise taxes, 86, 160

 

Farm price supports, 158

Fear instilled by State, 57

Federal Bureau of Reclamation, 159

Federal Communication Commission

(FCC), 98, 99, 102, 103

Federal Housing Administration, 159

Federalist party, 6, 7

Federal Radio Commission (FRC), 102, 103

Federal Reserve Notes, 179, 182

Federal Reserve System, 179?85; money sup­ply and, 179?83; reserve requirements of, 180

Feudalism, 5

Fifth Amendment, income tax and, 86

Finland, 285, 287

Fishing, 253?54

Flynn, John T., 280?81

Forced labor. See Involuntary servitude

Foreign intervention, 263, 264

Foreign policy, 74; American, 270?77; avoid­ing a priori history and, 289?91; Cold War, 275?76; "collective security" concept and, 267?68; German, 284?86; libertarian, 291?92; limiting government in, 264?70; So­viet, 282?89. See also Imperialism; Isola­tionism; War

Forest Service, 250

Forests, 250

France, 273, 286

Free contract, 24

Freedom: libertarian definition of, 41; for prostitution, 106?107

Freedom of radio and television, 98?103

Freedom of speech: incitement to riot and, 95; libel and slander and, 95?96; picket­ing and demonstration and, 96?97; prop­erty rights and, 43?44, 69, 94, 97; shout­ing "fire" in a crowded theatre and, 43?44 

Freedom of the press: property rights and, 42, 43, 69; radio and television and, 98, 99; scholastic freedom and, 129 

Free exchange, 39?42

Free market, in services and goods cur­rently supplied by government, 194?200

Free-market capitalism, liberal intellectu­als' complaints against, 242-44

Free-market economy, 24, 39?42; business cycle and, 184?85

Friedman, Milton, 27, 260?61; "voucher plan" of, 135

Future orientation, welfare system and, 151?54

 

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 78, 243

Gambling, 109?11

Garrett, Garet, 276?77

Garrison, William Lloyd, 15, 302?303

Gasoline tax, 209

George, Henry, 34

Georgists, 34, 35

Germany, 18; compulsory education in, 122? 23; foreign policy of, 284?86

Gold standard, 176?77, 182, 183

Goodman, Paul, 120?122

Good Samaritans, 118

Gordon, Thomas, 4

Gould, Stephen Jay, 17n

Gouldner, Alvin, 153?54

Government: American Revolution and, 6; "Cato's Letters" on, 4; classes created by, 52?53; distinguished from other institu­tions, 46?47; Jeffersonian and Jacksonian views of, 7; just owner of property as de­fined by, 30?31; limitations on powers of, 48?49; public schools and, 126?28; services and operations performed by, 194?200. See also Bureaucracy; State, the; and specific agencies, bureaus, and departments

Government bonds, 181, 182

Government contracts, 158, 280

Government expenditures, 171, 280, 281; dras­tic reduction in, 164

Government securities, 181, 182 

Gradualism, 16, 17, 299?305 

Grasslands, destruction of, 251?52 

Great Britain, 316; classical liberal move­ment in, 2?3. See also England

Great Depression, 173, 192

Greece, 286

Green, Arnold W., 38?39

Guaranteed annual income, 167?70

Guerrilla warfare, 269?70

Guilt, the State's use of, 58

Gun laws, 114?18

 

Habit, 55?56

Hamowy, Ronald, 293?94

Hansen, W. Lee, 138

Harper, F. A., 163

Harrington, Michael, 243

Harrison, Gen. William Henry, 7

Harvard study on handguns, 177

Hayek, Friedrich A., 173, 300?301

Hays, Samuel P., 251?52

Hazlitt, Henry, 143n, 169n

Henry, Patrick, 83

Higginson, Stephen, 129

Highway program, 208?10

Highways, pricing, 208, 214

Hill, James J. 249?50

Historical determinism, 57

History, conspiracy theory of, 57,

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 43

Homesteaders, 34

Homesteading: destruction of grasslands and, 251; property rights in airwaves, 101, 102

Hoopes, Townsend, 61

Hoover, Herbert C., 101, 279

Horwitz, Morton J., 257

Housing: discrimination in, 206?207; urban, 76

Huber, Ernst, 61

Human nature, 28

Human rights, property rights and, 42?44

Hume, David, 53

Immunity laws, 87

Imperialism: classical liberals and, 17?19; de­fined, 273?74; United States', 270?77

Imprisonment, 87?89

Income, guaranteed annual, 167?70

Income distribution, inequality in, 163

Income redistribution: higher education and, 138; welfare state and, 157?62

Income taxes, 73; colleges and, 139; negative, 167?70; as regressive, 159?60; withholding, 85?86

Indeterminate Sentencing, 92?93

Individual: deprecated by the State, 56?57; society and, 37?39

Industrial Revolution, 9, 314

Industrialism, 9?10, 12?13

Infant mortality, 152

Inflation, 77; explanations of, 174?75; money supply and, 175?83. See also Business cycle

Inflationary recession ("stagflation"), 77, 172?73, 174n; Austrian theory of business cycle and, 191?92

Inheritance, 41

Institute for Policy Studies, 166?67

Insurance company detectives, 217?18

Integration, school, 131?32

Intellectuals: as apologists for the state, 25; national security, 59?62; nineteenth-cen­tury statist conservatism and, 11?12; the State and, 54?69

Interest rate, business cycle and, 187?89

International affairs. See Foreign policy; Im­perialism; War

Involuntary servitude, 79?93; in the army, 81?83; compulsory commitment of mental patients as, 90?93, 318; conscription as, 79?81; in judicial and penal systems, 86?90; taxation as, 85?86. See also Slavery

Ireland, ancient (Celtic), 64, 231?33, 240

Irish immigrants, 152

Irrationality, 11?12

Isolationism, 263?65, 275?77, 291

Italy, 286

 

Jackson, Andrew, 7, 8

Jackson, Jonathan, 129

Jacksonian libertarians, 7

Jacobs, Norman, 56

Jarvis-Gann initiative, 73

Jefferson, Thomas, 7

Jeffersonian movement, 6?7

Judges:  common law, 228?30; Roman, 230; selection and appointment of, 222?23, 230; venal and biased, 234?36

Judicial review, 65?67

Judicial system; in ancient Ireland, 231?33; involuntary-servitude aspects of, 86?90; in libertarian society, 222?34. See also Courts; Trial

Jury duty, compulsory, 89?90

Juvenile delinquency, public schooling and, 137

 

Kates, Don B., Jr., 115?18

Kellems, Vivien, 85?86

Kelsen, Hans, 51

Kennan, George F., 60

Kennedy, Joseph P., 275?76

Kenyon, Cecilia, 77

Keynes, Sir John M., 171n, 173, 315?16

Keynesian economics, 171, 280; business cy­cle and, 192, 193

King, in ancient Ireland, 232

Knapp Commission, 112

Korean War, 59?60, 274?76

Kristol, Irving, 146

Ku Klux Klan, 126

 

Labor force, public schools and training of 136?37

Labor unions: anti-strike laws and, 83?85; public schooling and, 137; strikes by, 76

Laissez-faire liberals, 12?16, 26?27; pollution and, 261?62

Land, property rights in, 33?36

Lao-tse, 62?63

Latin America, 63?64

Law:        in ancient Ireland, 231?33; common, 228?30, 257, 258; Roman, 230

Legal code, in a libertarian society, 227?34

Legitimacy, 237; judiciary and, 65?67

Lenin, V. I., 283, 284, 313n

Leoni, Bruno, 229?30

Levasseur, Emile, 37n

Lewis, Samuel, 125

Libel, 95?96

Liberal Imperialism, 18

Liberal intellectuals, complaints of, 242?44

Liberals (liberal movement), 309?10; classical (see Classical liberals); laissez?faire, 12?16, 26?27; pornography and, 103?105

Libertarianism (libertarian movement), 1, 2; of American Revolution, 4?6; contradic­tions in rhetoric and, 307?308; education and, 297?99, 308?309; groups receptive to, 309?13; left utopianism and, 303?304; "left­ wing sectarianism" and, 299, 305?306; me­dia and, 311; Middle America and, 311?12; prospects of, 313?20; "right-wing oppor­tunists" and, 299?300, 305?306; society from point of view of, 37?39; transitional demands of, 305?306; as "utopian" or real­istic, 299?308; youth and, 311. See also specific  topics

Libertarian party, 1, 108, 306, 319?20; declara­tion of strategy by, 307

Libertarian theory, 297?99

Licensing, 165; of radio stations, 101?103

Liggio, Leonard, 274

Locke, John, 3; on property rights, 31?33, 36

Lower-class culture, public welfare and, 151?54

Luther, Martin, 122

 

McCone Commission, 145

McDermott, John, 122

Mackay, Thomas, 155

Macrae, Norman, 246

Maiken, Peter, 262n

Mann, Horace, 125

Marjorie Webster Junior College, 139

Marx, Karl, 237

Marxism-Leninism, 283

Massachusetts Bay Colony, 123

Matthew, Thomas, 165?66

Media, libertarian movement and, 311

Medical care, urban poor's attitudes and val­ues and, 151?52

Meiburg, Charles O., 210n

Melman, Seymour, 280n

Mencken, H. L., 7, 56?57, 89n

Mental patients, compulsory commitment of, 90?93, 318

Mercantilism, 2, 6

Merchants' courts, private, 224

Michels, Robert, 50

Militarism, 280, 281; classical liberals and, 17?18 

Military-industrial complex, 74?75; 279?80

Miller, Roger LeRoy, 253?54

MIND, 137

Minh, Ho Chi, 273

Minimum wage laws, 158

Minorities, public schools and, 124?25

Mises, Ludwig von, 124?25, 173, 174n, 315

Molinari, Gustave de, 219

Money, "checkbook." See Demand deposits

Money supply: business cycle and, 185, 191?93; inflation and, 175?83; Federal Reserve System and, 179?83. See also Bank credit; Bank demand deposits

Monopolies, government services as, 196,199

Moon, Parker T., 38

Morgenstern, George, 275

Mormon Church, welfare plan of, 148?151, 154

Mowat, 155

Murphey, Archibald D., 124

 

Narcotics, 111?12

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 245n

National defense, 237?41

National Industrial Recovery Act (1933), 84

National Recovery Administration, 281

National security intellectuals, 59?62

Nationalism, 58

Natural law, 27?28

Natural rights, 15?16; free-market economy and, 40; justice in property rights and, 30?31; libertarian creed based on, 26?28; property rights based on, 31?37; self-own­ership right and, 28?30

Needham, Joseph, 61

NEGRO, 165?66

Neustadt, Richard, 61

Neutrality, 291; laws of, 266

New Deal, 67, 280?82

"New Left" revisionist historians, 274

"New Light" movement, 123

New York City, 74, 75, 106, 143, 145, 317; crime in, 197, 201?202, 204, 215; off-track betting in, 110; police corruption in, 112, 113; water shortages in, 197

New York City Transit Authority, 198?99

Nixon, Richard, 6, 168, 169, 271

Nock, Albert Jay, 51, 121?22, 278

Noel-Baker, Philip, 292n

Noise pollution, 258

Nonaggression axiom, 23?26

Norris-LaGuardia Act (1933), 84

North, Douglass C., 253?54

Northside, Brooklyn, 151

North Vietnam, 273

Nuclear disarmament, 292?94

 

Ocean resources, 252?54

Oglesby, Carl, 274n

O'Gorman, Ned, 157

Oligarchic rule 50

Open market purchases, 180?81

Open range, 251?52

Oppenheimer, Franz, 50, 63n

Oregon, 126

 

Paasikivi, Julio, 287

Pacifists, 46, 270

Pakistan, 269

Parking, pricing, 211

Parliamentary democracy, 64

Participatory communalism, 29

Passell, P., 246, 248?49

Paterson, Isabel, 130?31, 163?64

Patriotism, 58

Peaceful coexistence, 265; as Soviet policy, 283-84

Peddling, Street, 165

Peden, Joseph, R., 231?33

Philanthropist, capitalist compared to, 163?64

Picketing, 96?97

Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 126

Piore, Michael J., 153

Poland, 284

Police: in black communities, 205; brutality, 202; corruption, 112?14; railway, 205; wire­tapping by, 108?9

Police forces: clashes between, 220?22; out­law, in a libertarian society, 236?37

Police protection, in private (free-market) economy, 201?205, 215?22

Pollution, 254, 262; air, 75, 256?62; of rivers 75, 255?56

Poole, Robert, Jr., 260

Poor, the: best ways for government to help, 162?67; government services and, 195?96; income redistribution and, 157?62; police protection for, in a free-market economy, 219?20; taxation system and, 159?62. See also Welfare System

Population growth, welfare system and, 156

Pornography, 103?105

Postal Service, 76

Postal Service, U.S., 76, 158?59, 198?99

Poverty, liberal worry about, 243

Power: "Cato's Letters" on, 4; libertarian movement and, 308?9

Power shortages and blackouts, 75

Present-orientation, welfare system and,

151?54

President, Watergate and, 77, 78

Prices: money supply and, 175?76; supply demand relationship and, 176. See also Inflation

Primitive man, 252

Progressives, 12

Property rights, 23?24, 26?37; in airwaves, 98?103; freedom of speech and, 94, 97; hu­man rights and, 42?44; justice in, 30?31; in land, 33?36; libertarian theory of, sum­mary of, 36?37, 68?69; Locke on, 31?33, 36; in material objects, 31?33, 68; natural-rights position on, 31?37; of producers, 31?33, 36?37, 68; self-ownership, 28?32

Property taxes, 73, 76, 160

Property titles: natural rights position on, 31?37; utilitarian position on, 30

Prostitution, freedom for, 106?7

Protection, 68. See also Police protection

Protectionism, 10

Public schools (public school system), 12, 76?77, 318; in colonial America, 123?24; com­pulsory attendance at, 119?26, 137; ethnic and linguistic minorities and, 124?25; geo­graphical districts of, 131?33; in Germany, 122?23; integration of, 131?32; juvenile delin­quency and, 137; nineteenth-century con­servatism and statism and, 11?12; parental control of, 132; residential segregation and, 132?33; subsidization of, 133?34; totalitarian nature of compulsory, 130?31; training of labor force and, 136?37; uniformity versus diversity and, 126?33. See also Education

Public sector, 194?200; abolition of, 200. See also Government

Publishing industry, 128?29

 

Quakers, 123

 

Radical libertarianism of American Revolu­tion, 4?6

Radicalism, 16; classical liberals and, 14, 16 See also Abolitionism

Radicals, 9, 12, 26

Radio: freedom of, 98?103; licensing of, 101?103

Radio Act of 1927, 98

Radosh, Ronald, 274n

Railroads, 75, 204, 205, 208

Railway police, 205

Rand, Ayn, 309

Range lands, public-domain, 251?52

Rape, 105?106

Raskin, Marcus, 61?62

Raw materials, conservation of, 247?54

Read, Herbert, 130

Read, Leonard E., 302?303

Reason, 12, 13

Recession: inflationary (see Inflationary re­cession) 1958, 172; 1966?1971, 172; Ricardian theory of business cycle and, 185, 186. See also Depression

Rediscount rate, 180

Redlich, Fritz, 312n

Reformers, 16. See also Gradualism

Religion (see also Church): Chinese, 56

Resources, conservation of, 247?54

Rhode Island, 124

Ricardo, David, 185?87

Rights: air pollution and, 261?62; to educa­tion, 134; human, 42?44; natural, 3, 15?16; property (see Property rights); to self-ownership, 28?32; of Society, 37

Riot, incitement to, 95

River pollution, 75, 255?56

Roads: pricing streets and, 208?14; private, in England and the United States, 213?14

Roberts, M., 246, 248?49

Rogers, A. J., III, 262n

Roman Catholic Church, 62. See also Catholics

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 271?73

Roosevelt, Theodore, 249

Rosenblatt, Daniel, 151?52

Ross, L., 246, 248?49

Rothbard, Murray N., 174n, 185n, 275n, 278n, 314n

Rural Electrification Administration, 159

Russia: World War I and, 284. See also Soviet Union

Russian Jewish immigrants, 152

 

Sales taxes, 86, 160

SALT agreements, 292, 293

Saving, T. R., 145n

Scarcity of resources, 244

Schafer, Stephen, 88

Schools: Friedman's "voucher plan" and 135; parochial, 125, 126; private, 126, 133, 135, 136; public (see Public schools)

Schumpeter, Joseph, 51, 244

Science, 12, 13. See also Technology

Scientists, 13. See also Technocrats

Self-ownership, right to, 28?32

Sentencing, indeterminate, 92?93

Sex laws, 105?108

Shaull, Richard, 274n

Shaw-Cardozo ghetto, 167

Silver standard, 176?77

Slander, 95?96

Slavery, 8; abolition of, 15; conscription as, 23?25. See also Involuntary servitude

Small Business Administration, 166

Smith, Adam, 40

Smith, J. Allen, 66n

Social Darwinism (or evolutionism), 16?17

Socialism, 199, 300; failure of, 316; freedom of the press and, 99; liberals' demands for, 242?44; nineteenth-century, 12?14. See also Communism

Social Security system, 317?18

Social Security tax, 160

Social workers, 146,154

Society, individual and, 37?39

South Vietnam, 273

Soviet Union: disarmament and, 292?94; for­eign policy of, 282?89

Spanish-American War, 270, 271, 275

Spencer, Herbert, 16, 17, 130, 315

Spooner, Lysander, 51?52

Stagflation. See Inflationary recession

Stalin, Joseph, 285, 286

State: as aggressor, 45?54; civil obedience to, 54?56; classical liberals and, 2?3, 4, 14?15; corporate, 10; demystification and de­sanctification of, 25; failure of statism, 315?16; guilt as used by, 58; inevitability of rule of, 57, 59; intellectuals and, 54?69; in­tellectuals' need for, 60; judicial review and, 65?67; heterodox views and, 56?57; limitations on power of, 65?66; majority support for or acceptance of, 53?56, 65; money supply controlled by, 177?78; oli­garchic rule of, 50; origin of, 63?64; parasi­tic nature of, 50; as robber group, 51?52; separation of Church and, 3, 5, 11; social­ism and, 13; union of Church and, 55; vio­lence as monopoly of, 47?48; war as health of, 277?82. See also Government

State-less society, 68

Statism (nineteenth century), 10?12, 14

Stinchcombe, Arthur, 136?37

Stobierski, Rudolph J., 151

Stone, Lawrence, 313

Storefront, The, 157

Stowes, Calvin, 125

Streets: crime in the, 74; police protection of, in private economy, 201?205; pricing roads and, 208?14; private ownership of, 202?203; rules for use of, 206?208. See also Traffic congestion

Strikes, 76; laws against, 83?85

Subpoena power, 87

Suburbs, public schools in, 132?33

Subways, 75

Sumner, William Graham, 16, 17, 263?64

Supreme Court, U.S., 48, 65?67

Supreme courts: absence of, in a libertarian society, 226, 227, 229

Synthetic materials, 249

Szasz, Thomas S., 90?92, 318

 

Taft-Hartley Act, 83, 84 

Taft, Robert A., 59?60 

Tallack, William, 88

Taxation, 7, 24, 63; abolition or drastic re­duction of, 163, 306; classes and, 52?53; clas­sical liberals and, 3; coercion and, 25?26, 47; excessive, 73?74; government opera­tions and services and, 198; higher educa­tion and, 138; as involuntary servitude, 85?86; opportunistic strategy in, 305?8; the poor and, 159?62; as robbery, 51?52; state and local, 160; welfare state and, 157?62. See also specific types of taxes

Tax-consumers, class of, 53, 54

Tax Foundation, 162

Tax-payers, class of, 52?54

Tax rebellions, 317

Technocrats, 12, 13

Technology: antipollution, 259?60; liberal attack on, 245?47

Telephone service, 75

Television, 76; freedom of, 98?103; pay-, 99?100; violence on, 104

Tennessee Valley Authority, 159

Terborgh, George, 243

Testimony, coerced, 86?87

Thirteenth Amendment, 87

Tibet, 289n

Timber resources, 250

Time preferences, 187?89

Tradition, 11?12; power of, 55?56

Traffic congestion, 74, 197

Traffic rules for private streets, 207?208

Training of labor force, public schools and, 136?37

Transportation crisis, 75

Trenchard, John, 4

Trial: compelled attendance at one's, 87; in­carceration before, 88?89; right to speedy, 88?89

Tribune Co. v. Oak Leaves Broadcasting Station, 102

True Whigs, 3, 4

Turnpike network, nineteenth-century, 213?14 

 

Ukraine, 284

Unemployment, 242, 243; lower-class, 153?54; minimum wage laws and, 158

Unions, strikes by, 76. See also Labor unions 

United States: breakdown of mystique of the State in, 318?19; crisis situations in 317; disarmament and, 292?94; foreign pol­icy of, 270?77, 291?92; libertarianism as ful­fillment of history of, 320?21; libertarian movement's prospects in, 316?20; war and power of the State in, 278?82. See also Colo­nial America; and specific topics

Upper-class culture, welfare and, 151?54

Urban fiscal crisis 74, 317

Urban housing, 76

Urban renewal programs, 158

Utilitarianism, 15?16; conscription and, 80; free-market economy and, 40; libertarian creed and, 26?27; property titles and, 30

 

Van Buren, Martin, 7, 8

Veale, F. J. P., 266?67

Vickrey, William, 209, 212

Viet Cong 273

Viet Minh, 273

Vietnam War, 74, 272?73, 318

Violence on television, 104

 

Wage, minimum, 158

Wagner Act (1935), 84

Walters, A. A., 211?12

War, 10, 23; ancient Ireland and, 233; classical liberals and, 9?11, 14, 17?18; guerrilla (revo­lutionary), 269?70; as health of the State, 277?82; laws of, 266; libertarian position on, 265?66 See also specific wars

Warner, H. P., 102

War of 1812, 278

War on Poverty, 146, 243

Watergate scandal, 77?78, 318?19

Water pollution. See Pollution, of rivers

Water shortages, 75; in New York City, 197

Weed, Thurlow, 7

Weisbrod, Burton A., 138

Welfare Plan, Mormon Church, 148?51, 154

Welfare state, tax system and, 157?62

Welfare system, 76; conservative criticism of, 154?55; crisis in, 142?48; cultural and moral values and, 151?54; demoralizing ef­fect of, 154, 156; incentives/disincentives for going on, 144?48; self-help discouraged by, 156

West, E. G., 129?31

West Germany, 316

Western Europe, origin of the State in, 53? 64

Whig Settlement, 3

Williams, William Appleman, 274, 279

Wilson, Margaret Bush, 245n

Wilson, Woodrow, 271, 272, 289

Wiretapping, 108?109

Wisconsin, University of, 117

Witnesses coerced to testify, 86?87

Wittfogel, Karl, 61

Wolowski, Leon, 37n

Woolridge, William C., 205n, 224

Workers, in nineteenth century, 10

World War I, 271, 279; Russia and, 284

World War II, 280?82, 285?86

 

Yugoslavia, 286, 288

Young, Owen D., 224

Youth, libertarian movement and, 311

 

Zoning laws, 158

 

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