Planning for Freedom

I. Planning for Freedom

• 1. Planning as a synonym for socialism.
• 2. Planning as a synonym for interventionism.
• 3. What interventionism or mixed economy means.
• 4. Two patterns of socialism.
• 5. Only method of permanently raising wage rates for all.
• 6. Interventionism the cause of depression.
• 7. Marx condemned interventionism.
• 8. Minimum wage rates bring about mass unemployment.
• 9. Traditional labor union policies harmful to the worker
• 10. The social function of profit and loss.
• 11. A free market economy best serves the common man.

II. Middle-of-the-Road Policy Leads to Socialism

• 1. Socialism.
• 2. Interventionism, allegedly a middle-of-the-road policy.
• 3. How interventionism works.
• 4. How price control leads to socialism.
• 5. The Zwangswirtschaft type of socialism.
• . German and British experience.
• 7. Crises and unemployment.
• 8. Two roads to socialism.
• 9. Foreign exchange control.
• 10. Progressive taxation.
• 11. The trend toward socialism.
• 12. Loopholes capitalism.
• 13. The coming of socialism not inevitable.

III. Laissez Faire or Dictatorship

• 1. What the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences says about laissez faire.
• 2. Laissez faire means free market economy.
• 3. The Cairnes argument against laissez faire.
• 4. "Conscious planning" versus "automatic forces."
• 5. The satisfaction of man's "true" needs.
• 6. "Positive" policies versus "negative" policies.
• 7. Conclusion.

VI. Inflation and Price Control

• 1. The futility of price control.
• 2. Price control in Germany.
• 3. Popular inflation fallacies.
• 4. Fallacies must not be imported.

VII. Economic Aspects of the Pension Problem

• 1. On whom does the incidence fall?
• 2. Pensions and the purchasing power of the dollar.
• 3. Pensions and the "new economics."

VIII. Benjamin M. Anderson Challenges The Philosophy of the Pseudo-Progressives

• 1. The two lines of Marxian thought and policies.
• 2. The guide of the progressives.
• 3. Anderson's fight against destructionism.
• 4. Anderson's posthumous economic history.

IX. Profit and Loss

A. The Economic Nature of Profit and Loss

• 1. The emergence of profit and loss.
• 2. The distinction between profits and other proceeds.
• 3. Non-profit conduct of affairs.
• 4. The ballot of the market.
• 5. The social function of profit and loss.
• 6. Profit and loss in the progressing and in the retrogressing economy.
• 7. The computation of profit and loss.

B. The Condemnation of Profit

• 1. Economics and the abolition of profit.
• 2. The consequences of the abolition of profit.
• 3. The anti-profit arguments.
• 4. The equality argument.
• 5. Communism and poverty.
• 6. The moral condemnation of the profit motive.
• 7. The static mentality.

C. The Alternative

X. Wages, Unemployment and Inflation

• 1. Wages ultimately paid by the consumers.
• 2. What makes wages rise.
• 3. What causes unemployment
• 4. Credit expansion no substitute for capital
• 5. Inflation cannot go on endlessly.
• 6. The policy of the unions.
• 7. The purchasing power argument.
• 8. Wage rates as such not inflationary.
• 9. The dilemma of present day policies.
• 10. Insincerity in the fight against inflation.
• 11. The importance of sound monetary policies.

XI. Economic Teaching at the Universities

• 1. Methods of the "progressive" teachers.
• 2. The alleged impartiality of the universities.
• 3. How modern history is taught.
• 4. The Proscription of sound economics.

XIV. The Gold Problem

• 1. The fiction of government omnipotence.
• 2. The "cheap-money" fallacy.
• 3. The failure of minimum wage legislation and of union coercion.
• 4. The inescapable consequence, namely, the United States government gold holdings will shrink.