CONTENTS
Introduction: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
PART 1 Chapter 1—Concerning Right Thinking: Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Chapter 2—What We Know for a Fact: Humans Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Reason and Human Action . . . . . . . . . 10
Chapter 3—What is Indispensable for Human Action: Property . . . . . . 13
Chapter 4—Interpreting History: The Role of Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 5—The Driving Force of Civilization: Inequality . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Chapter 6—The Perfection of Exchange: Money. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 7—The Decivilizing Force: The State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 8—The State and the Deterioration of Money: From Commodity to Fiat Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Chapter 9—Anatomy of a Disruption: What Fiat Money Causes . . . . . . 43
Market Interest Rate and Originary Interest Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Chapter 10—A Destructive Ideology: Democratic Socialism . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 11—Impact Assessment: A Case for the A Priori Theory . . . . . . 57
PART 2
Chapter 12—The Progression Theorem: Toward a World Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Chapter 13—The Nation: Community of Language and Values . . . . . . . 69
The Nation As a Language Community. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 ix
Chapter 14—Migration: Natural and Unnatural . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Chapter 15—The Illusion of Democracy: The “Iron Law of the Oligarchy” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Chapter 16—Dollar Imperialism: The Bretton Woods System . . . . . . . . 85
Chapter 17—Campaign against Currency Choice: The Euro . . . . . . . . . 93
Making One Currency Out of Many . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Chapter 18—The Secret and Sinister Power: The World Central Bank Cartel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Creating Money Out of Nothing with Money Out of Nothing . . . . . 104
Chapter 19—Proposals for a World Currency: Bancor, Unitas, US dollar, INTOR, Libra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Determining the Correct Exchange Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Chapter 20—The Dystopia: A single Fiat World Currency . . . . . . . . . 123 The Desire to Abolish Cash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Chapter 21—Technological Disruption: Cryptocurrencies . . . . . . . . 137
Chapter 22—The Ray of Hope: Free Market for Money and Private Law Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Free Market for Money—Answers to Pressing Questions . . . . . . . . 145
Epilogue: A Better World is Possible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Appendix: On the Link between the A Priori Categories of Action and Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159