The Great Fiction: Property, Economy, Society, and the Politics of Decline (Laissez Faire Books, 2012; Second Expanded Edition, Mises Institute, 2021)
- Print and pdf; html
- Foreword by Jeff Deist
- Afterword by Stephan Kinsella [PDF]
- David Gordon’s announcement in the Mises Wire
- First edition:
- epub and mobi
- Announcement: Hoppe’s New Book: The Great Fiction
- Editorial Preface, by Jeffrey Tucker
- Afterword to First Edition by Stephan Kinsella
- Jeffrey Tucker, “Conspiracies and How to Defeat Them,” Laissez Faire Today (May 390, 2012)
- Jeffrey Tucker, “Don’t Think about Elephants,” Laissez Faire Today (Sep. 7, 2012)
- Doug French, “The Great Mischief Maker”, Laissez Faire Today (Sep. 6, 2012)
(Note: As mentioned Stephan Kinsella’s Afterword, “The copyright license printed on this edition of Hoppe’s book is factually and legally incorrect: its contents, including my Afterword, are not licensed under a CC-BY-NC-ND license, despite what the copyright notice says.” Instead, the book was published under, and remains under, a CC-BY license (except for Kinsella’s Afterword, which is under a CC0 license). As Kinsella points out, this is one drawback of Creative Commons licenses, and illustrates yet another problem with copyright. See Kinsella, “Let’s Make Copyright Opt-OUT” and “Copyright Is Very Sticky!“)
Contents
Editorial Preface
Preface
Part One: Politics and Property
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 Restricted Immigration
Part Two: Money and the State
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. The Private Production of Defense
13. Reflections on State and War
Part Three: Economic Theory
14. On Certainty and Uncertainty
15. The Limits of Numerical Probability
16. In Defense of Extreme Rationalism
17. Two Notes on Preference and Indifference
18. Property, Causality, and Liability
Part Four: The Intellectuals
19. M. N. Rothbard: Economics, Science, and Liberty
20. Hayek on Government and Social Evolution
Part Five: Autobiographical
21. Interview with The Daily Bell
22. Interview with Philosophie Magazine
23. This Crazy World
24. My Life on the Right
