Bøger af Antony P Mueller

Fully colored, expanded, and revised, large format textbook edition based on "Beyond the State and Politics. Capitalism for the New Millennium" (first edition April 2018). The present new edition of July 2018 contains an additional chapter on International Trade and Finance and includes a timeline of the economic crises and political transformation since 1913.This book shows why the traditional economic and social policies have not worked and why they will even less so function in the future. As the author explains, the answer is not more of the old, but that we must eliminate politics and the state. We must do away with the conventional economic and social policies. Not more welfare state and government intervention are the answer but less state and more free capitalism.The new technologies contain the solution of the problems they present. While technological progress destroys occupations, innovations make the economy more productive. Not full employment is the key to the future but higher productivity.The new technologies will make the present political apparatus obsolete. When the functions of government are privatized, the financial burden of taxes and contributions falls from the shoulders of the population. Productivity rises and the cost-of-living falls. The urgency of having a permanent position recedes. Minimizing and doing away with the state is a necessity - not only because of the material well-being but also because the modern technology would put terrific instruments of control into the hands of the government. With the new devices of supervision and domination, a modern totalitarian state would supersede the horrors of the past terror regimes. "Capitalism Beyond the State and Politics" highlights in the first parts the need for a political and economic order beyond the current system of state capitalism, political party politics, and government intervention. The author explains how a free capitalism works and how wealth creation happens. The book exposes the wealth destruction through socialism, interventionism, and economic policies. The final part discusses the structure of an anarcho-capitalist order and details the selection of the legislative body and its functions by sortition (demarchy).Essential reading for understanding the choice between state socialism and anarcho-capitalism that the world confronts in the face of the crumbling social-democratic (liberal) state capitalism.

Neuedition November 2021. Vollständig überarbeitet und aktualisiert."Kapitalismus Ohne Wenn und Aber. Wohlstand für alle durch radikale Marktwirtschaft" ist zuerst 2018 erschienen. Mit der vorliegenden Neuedition vom November 2021 liegt eine vollständig überarbeitete und aktualisiert Ausgabe vor. Die Thesen in "Kapitalismus Ohne Wenn und Aber." haben seit der Ersterscheinung nichts von ihrer Aktualität verloren. Im Gegenteil. Eine Fürsprache zugunsten eines freien Kapitalismus ist noch dringender geworden. Die Grundthese gilt nach vor, dass der Rückzug des Staates und das Ende der Politik den Weg zu Wohlstand und Freiheit eröffnen. "Kapitalismus Ohne Wenn und Aber" erklärt, wie die Marktwirtschaft funktioniert und weshalb der freie Kapitalismus am besten geeignet ist, Wohlstand hervorzubringen. "Kapitalismus ohne Wenn und Aber" zeigt, worauf es ankommt: nicht Gesellschaftsplanung und Umverteilung führen zu Wohlstand, sondern steigende Produktivität. Das 21. Jahrhundert wird jenen gehören, die dem Sozialismus, dem Demokratismus und dem Staatskapitalismus den Rücken kehren und sich entschieden in Richtung auf einen Kapitalismus frei von Staat und Politik zubewegen. Weshalb das so ist, zeigt dieses Buch.Wer Wirtschaft wirklich verstehen will, greife zu diesem Buch.

New enlarged and revised edition July 2018 with topical excerpts based on "Beyond the State and Politics. Capitalism for the New Millennium". Essential reading to stand up to the current debate about where the United States and the world should be going. The author points out that in the face of the possibilities that come with the new technologies of surveillance and control by government, the choice in favor of anarcho-capitalism is a moral duty. 'Anarcho-capitalism' is the name of a governance that has property, freedom, and non-aggression as its first principles. In the political spectrum, libertarianism differs from the classical liberalism and is distinct from the American usage of the word 'liberalism'. Demarchy is a system of governance where the people's representatives are selected by lottery. The classical liberals were not strict enough in holding up the barrier against the erosion of the property rights. A political order of freedom requires a society with a minimum of state. Freedom requires uncompromising adherence to the property rights and to voluntary exchange relations. As much market as possible - as little state as necessary refers only to the way. Ultimately, the ideal of anarcho-capitalism is to minimize and to abolish the state as the bearer of the monopoly of violence. Yet anarchism in the sense of no authoritative force does not mean that order would not exist. According to the ideal of the liberal order, there will be a legal and a social order in place - only that it will be private. Anarcho-capitalism demands private institutions that take care of internal and external security. Anarcho-capitalism does not promote anarchy but the transform of the state as a public institution into a private legal order.Taking away power from the state is a moral necessity in the face of the prospect that the new technologies would put such an immense arsenal of surveillance and control into the hands of the state that a future totalitarian regime could exert complete control over the individual and produce the uttermost terror. Therefore, to establish an anarcho-capitalist order is a matter of human dignity. What needs to be done as practical steps to establish a new order of liberty is a change of the system of selection of the representatives through a lottery, called 'demarchy' or sortition. This form of governance selects the members of the legislature as a random sample from a pool of candidates formed by the citizens of a community. A stateless society would then require that this General Assembly hires a private government management company to run the business of government under the supervision of the legislature.

Capitalism brings freedom and prosperity, and more capitalism leads to more freedom and prosperity. Yet most countries move the other way. Governments try to control, organize, and tame capitalism as much asthey can. Many people believe that the best economic system is the welfare state. Yet what they get is less well-being, less prosperity, and less freedom. The anti-capitalist mentality demands a high price. Who pays the bill is the common man. Most of the ailments that politicians, the media, and the leftist in academia diagnose are not the result of capitalism but its lack. The cure to poverty is not less but more capitalism. The cure for environmental problems is not more regulation but better property rights. Private education would not only be much cheaper than the present system but also more creative and much better tuned to the needs of the student. The social-democratic era is coming to its end. The 21st century will belong to those countries that embrace radical capitalism. Instead of making capitalism more socialist, we need a more capitalist capitalism. Free capitalism together with the drastic reduction of the state and the abolishment of politics would do away with the financial burdens that afflict the modern citizen. Not state intervention in economic life leads to prosperity. The path to affluence is the withdrawal of the state and the end of politics. The new millennium will belong to those societies that discard the administrative state and move towards a capitalism that is free of the state and of politics. A free economy in a free society requires three major institutional changes. First, the selection of the society's representative body through a process of random selection; second, a private monetary system to substitute the central banks; third, the provision of law and security by private suppliers. In order to establish a state-free society, insight must come first. The legitimacy of a free social order cannot come from the application of force - as it has been the case with all other political systems - but needs as its base the voluntary cooperation of the people to arise as a spontaneous order. Antony Mueller is a professor of economics who currently teaches in Brazil. He is an associate scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and a senior fellow of the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER). This booklet is based on the comprehensive monograph "Beyond the State and Politics. Capitalism for the New Millennium."

É hora de abandonar os mitos sobre o estado, a política e a economia. O moderno sistema político-partidário não é nem democrático nem benéfico para o povo. Os parlamentos não são representativos do povo. O atual sistema monetário internacional não promove a prosperidade. Para sair desses enigmas, mais estado e mais política não ajudarão. Precisamos de uma sociedade livre e de uma economia livre. Um passo decisivo para alcançar esse objetivo é acabar com as eleições políticas. A tecnologia moderna permite a escolha de representantes por seleção aleatória. Uma assembleia legislativa cujos membros tomam posse por sorteio, mesmo que maior que os atuais parlamentos, custaria menos que um sistema eleitoral, seria mais representativa e, nesse sentido, seria muito mais democrática. Com o tempo de serviço limitado, os representantes retornariam à sua vida civil e sua legislação estaria livre dos males que acompanham o atual sistema de partidos políticos e seus políticos, cujo objetivo principal é o carreirismo.O socialismo foi experimentado na Europa, na Ásia e na África. Que também falharia na América Latina, não é uma surpresa. Apesar de seu cartão de pontuação desastroso, o socialismo ainda tem seus seguidores. Em negação da realidade, socialistas e comunistas tentarão repetidas vezes realizar a sua utopia fracassada. A última baixa de uma tomada socialista do estado é a Venezuela. No entanto, até mesmo a riqueza da Venezuela não pôde impedir a marcha para o abismo. Onde quer que o socialismo tenha sido tentado levou à miséria e à supressão. O socialismo não foi a resposta adequada para os desafios do século passado, será menos a resposta correta aos desafios do novo milênio.Enquanto as políticas tradicionais não funcionaram no passado e cumprirá ainda menos no novo milênio. A resposta não é mais da política antiga, mas nós precisamos eliminar a política e o estado. Não mais intervenção do governo é a resposta, mas menos estado e mais capitalismo livre.

This book shows the failure of socialism, interventionism, and the welfare state. Internationally renowned economist Antony Mueller analyses why socialism brings misery, the suppression of freedom, and a broken economy. Interventionism comes along with political populism and results in state capitalism and the growth of government. People like to praise this mixed system as a welfare state, but they fail to recognize that this politics does not lead to the hoped-for Eldorado but is the path to stagnation. The welfare state produces most of the social ailments, which the government claims to heal. The more generous the social assistance, the larger the number of social welfare recipients, and the higher the burden, the more the shadow economy will flourish. When the tax code gets more complicated, tax evasion rises. The more access to public healthcare and medication, the sicker people become. The higher the percentage of a populational cohort that attends high schools and colleges, the lower the educational level. Interventionism discourages innovation and leads to a waste of resources due to the cost of regulation and the misallocation brought about by the state intervention. The results are perpetual fiscal and monetary crises. The book uses excerpts from Antony Mueller's comprehensive monograph "Beyond the State and Politics".

New edition July 2018 revised and expandedThis book shows why the traditional policies have not worked and why they will even less so function in the future. As the author explains, the answer is not more of the old, but that we must eliminate politics and the state. We must do away with the conventional economic and social policies. Not more welfare state and government intervention are the answer but less state and more free capitalism.The policy agenda of the modern democracy asserts that government could prevent and cure unemployment, economic crises, recessions, depressions, inflation, deflation, and inequality and that the state could provide education, healthcare, and social security for all. The promises of rising incomes and employment dominate the political campaigns. Yet politics has never attained these assertions. In the time to come, the system of party politics will even less so fulfill its claims.The new technologies contain the solution of the problems they present. While technological progress destroys occupations, innovations make the economy more productive. Not growth and jobs are the key to the future but higher productivity.

Antony P. Mueller, an internationally renowned associate scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, launches a devastating attack against the prevailing conception of economic policy according to which the government and the monetary authorities have to stabilize the economy. This claim implies the assumption that the market economy is unstable. Yet what if when it is not the market economy but politics which produces instability? What if when the policy managers fabricate the opposite of their claim? What if when they do not smooth the business cycle but make it more extreme? What if when monetary policy does not cure inflation but instigates the erosion of the purchasing power of money? The great economic eruptions happen when the government and the central bank do not allow the small economic fluctuations to play out. The authorities hinder the return to a balance when false incentives and distorted market signals persist. When capital becomes scarcer, the interest rate should rise to signal this change. If, however, the central bank attempts to pump more money into the systems and to lower the interest rate, this policy will cover up the capital shortage. Cheap credit insinuates a profusion of funds that do not exist. Economic policy claims to stabilize the economy and keep it on its growth path. For that purpose, economic policy is said to pursue the aims to fight inflation and deflation, to prevent recessions and depressions and to promote economic growth. Yet, often, these policies themselves produce what the policymakers claim to prevent and to cure. This booklet, based on the comprehensive monograph "Beyond the State and Politics. Capitalism for the New Millennium" explains that the monetary authorities and the government do not improve economic performance but are the main culprits for a weak growth and the extreme swings of the economic activity. The author Antony Mueller is a German professor of economics who currently teaches in Brazil. He is an associate scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and a senior fellow of the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER). Antony Mueller holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and has taught and done research in Europe, the United States (where he also was a Fulbright Scholar), and in various parts of Latin America. He gained professional experience as a sovereign risk analyst.