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Twenty-two. THE CONSTITUTION OF A LIBERAL STATE

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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. EDITORIAL FOREWORD ix
  4. EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION xiii
  5. One. LIBERALISM 1
  6. Two. THE TRANSMISSION OF THE IDEALS OF ECONOMIC FREEDOM 42
  7. Three. THE PROSPECTS OF FREEDOM 55
  8. Four. THE WEBBS AND THEIR WORK 74
  9. Five. CLOSING SPEECH TO THE 1984 MONT PÈLERIN SOCIETY MEETING 81
  10. Six. ‘FREE’ ENTERPRISE AND COMPETITIVE ORDER1 90
  11. Seven. THE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF INTER- STATE FEDERALISM 102
  12. Eight. THE MEANING OF GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE 118
  13. Nine. THE ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPMENT CHARGES 124
  14. Ten. EFFECTS OF RENT CONTROL 144
  15. Eleven. ECONOMICS 158
  16. Twelve. THE USES OF ‘GRESHAM’S LAW’ AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF ‘HISTORICAL THEORY’ 183
  17. Thirteen. THE DILEMMA OF SPECIALISATION 187
  18. Fourteen. FULL EMPLOYMENT, PLANNING AND INFLATION 200
  19. Fifteen. INFLATION RESULTING FROM THE DOWNWARD INFLEXIBILITY OF WAGES 210
  20. Sixteen. UNIONS, INFLATION, AND PROFITS 215
  21. Seventeen. THE CORPORATION IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY 232
  22. Eighteen. THE NON SEQUITUR OF THE ‘DEPENDENCE EFFECT’ 245
  23. Nineteen. WHAT IS ‘SOCIAL’? WHAT DOES IT MEAN? 251
  24. Twenty. THE MORAL ELEMENT IN FREE ENTERPRISE1 263
  25. Twenty-one. THE PRINCIPLES OF A LIBERAL SOCIAL ORDER 272
  26. Twenty-two. THE CONSTITUTION OF A LIBERAL STATE 292
  27. Twenty-three. THE CONFUSION OF LANGUAGE IN POLITICAL THOUGHT 300
  28. Twenty-four. ECONOMIC FREEDOM AND REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT 328
  29. Twenty-five. THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST KEYNESIAN INFLATION 341
  30. Twenty-six. THE NEW CONFUSION ABOUT ‘PLANNING’ 383
  31. Twenty-seven. THE ATAVISM OF SOCIAL JUSTICE1 401
  32. Twenty-eight. WHITHER DEMOCRACY? 413
  33. Twenty-nine. SOCIALISM AND SCIENCE 426
  34. Thirty. TWO PAGES OF FICTION 444
  35. Thirty-one. LETTERS TO THE TIMES, 1931–1981 458
  36. NAME INDEX 519
  37. SUBJECT INDEX 527
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