Titles in the Liberty Fund Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises
Edited by Bettina Bien Greaves
The Anti-capitalistic Mentality
Bureaucracy
Economic Freedom and Interventionism: An Anthology of Articles and Essays
Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
Interventionism: An Economic Analysis
Liberalism: The Classical Tradition
Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time
Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
On the Manipulation of Money and Credit: Three Treatises on Trade-Cycle Theory
Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work
A Collection of Essays and Addresses
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution
The Theory of Money and Credit
The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
Edited by Richard M. Ebeling
Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises
Volume 1: Monetary and Economic Policy Problems Before, During, and After the Great War
Volume 2: Between the Two World Wars: Monetary Disorder, Interventionism, Socialism, and the Great Depression
Volume 3: The Political Economy of International Reform and Reconstruction
This book is published by Liberty Fund, Inc., a foundation established to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.
The cuneiform inscription that serves as our logo and as a design element in Liberty Fund books is the earliest-known written appearance of the word “freedom” (amagi), or “liberty.” It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.
© 1944, 1974 by Liberty Fund, Inc.
Foreword, editorial additions, and index © 2011 by Liberty Fund, Inc.
Omnipotent Government was originally published in 1944 by Yale University Press.
Front cover photograph of Ludwig von Mises used by permission of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama.
This eBook edition published in 2012.
ePub ISBN: E-PUB 978-1-61487-251-1
CONTENTS
Foreword to the Liberty Fund Edition
PART I: The Collapse of German Liberalism
1. The Ancien Régime and Liberalism
2. The Weakness of German Liberalism
4. The Constitutional Conflict in Prussia
5. The “Little German” Program
CHAPTER II. The Triumph of Militarism
1. The Prussian Army in the New German Empire
3. The Liberals and Militarism
4. The Current Explanation of the Success of Militarism
PART II: Nationalism
1. The New Mentality
3. The Political and Social Doctrines of Liberalism
5. Socialism in Russia and in Germany
8. Economic Nationalism and Domestic Monopoly Prices
CHAPTER IV. Etatism and Nationalism
1. The Principle of Nationality
3. Liberalism and the Principle of Nationality