The Great Fiction

by Stephan Kinsella on January 13, 2021

The Great Fiction: Property, Economy, Society, and the Politics of Decline (Laissez Faire Books, 2012; Second Expanded Edition, Mises Institute, 2021)

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Foreword by Jeff Deist
Afterword by Stephan Kinsella [PDF]
David Gordon’s announcement in the Mises Wire
First edition:
- epub and mobi
- 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)

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