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    19th Century · French

    The Society of Tomorrow

    Gustave de Molinari

    Molinari's late forecast of a world ordered by free contract: the state of war giving way to the state of peace, written at the end of six decades of argument. The 1904 English edition, from the shelves of David Hart's Digital Library of Liberty and Power. Translated by P. H. Lee Warner (1904).

    Chapters
    32
    Variants
    32
    Genre
    Political & Social Theory
    Difficulty
    Intermediate

    Chapters

    1. 01Introductionprose
    2. 02Prefatory Letter TO MR. FISHER UNWINprose
    3. 03Preface: THE LAWS OF NATUREprose
    4. 04Chapter I Formation of Primitive Communities and the Conditions Necessary to Their Existenceprose
    5. 05Chapter II Competition Between Primitive Communities and Its Resultsprose
    6. 06Chapter III Competition Between States in Process of Civilisationprose
    7. 07Chapter IV Decline of Destructive Competitionprose
    8. 08Chapter V Why the State of War Continues When It No Longer Fulfils a Purposeprose
    9. 09Chapter VI Consequences of the Perpetuation of the State of Warprose
    10. 10Chapter I The Collective Guarantee of the Security of Nationsprose
    11. 11Chapter II The Free Constitution of Nationalityprose
    12. 12Chapter III Free Constitution of Governments and Their Natural Functionsprose
    13. 13Chapter IV Free Constitution of Governments and Their Natural Functions (continued)prose
    14. 14Chapter V Free Constitution of Governments and Their Natural Functions (continued)prose
    15. 15Chapter VI Subjection and Sovereignty of the Individualprose
    16. 16Chapter VII Impost and Contributionprose
    17. 17Chapter VIII Production of Articles of Naturally Individual Consumptionprose
    18. 18Chapter IX Equilibrium of Production and Consumptionprose
    19. 19Chapter X Distribution of Products and the Share of Capital in the Proceeds of Productionprose
    20. 20Chapter XI Distribution of Products and the Share of Labour in the Proceeds of Productionprose
    21. 21Chapter XII The Problem of Populationprose
    22. 22Chapter XIII Consumptionprose
    23. 23Chapter XIV The Expansion of Civilisationprose
    24. 24Chapter XV Summary and Conclusionprose
    25. 25Note A The Czar and Disarmamentprose
    26. 26Note B (written 1899-1900) Syndicates Restricting Competition, or "Trusts"prose
    27. 27Note C. Effects of Industrial Progress on the Sphere of Productionprose
    28. 28Note D. Costs and Profits of State Colonisationprose
    29. 29Note E. The Economic and Socialist Conceptions of the Society of the Futureprose
    30. 30Iprose
    31. 31COMPUTATION TO JUNE 30, 1904 (Extended on Government Estimates, to June 30, 1905)prose
    32. 32II. RELATIVE TAXATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, IN FRANCE, AND IN GERMANY, AS COMPARED WITH THE UNITED STATESprose