The new approach to freedom : together with essays on the separation of money and state

Self-government, so-called, is the art of governing government. It has been slowly and painfully developed. Now, through Open Sesame to tyranny offered by the universal ignorance of money, it is threatened with becoming a lost art. The state's modern method of deceiving the citizen with counterfeit money menaces civilization through a confusion of monetary tongues and renders society unfit for self government until its ignorance of money shall be dispelled and government of government restored by the separation of money and state. In view of the transcendency of this issue, where is there a friend of freedom who will not give its solution priority over any and all other reforms? I ask you, Earnestly, E. C. Riegel Author Preface // 2 Editorial Preface // 3 Foreword // 5 CHAPTER 1: What is Freedom? // 8 CHAPTER 2: What is Money? // 18 CHAPTER 3: The Separation of Money and State // 24 CHAPTER 4: The Money Power in Men // 32 APPENDIX: Design Requirement for a Personal Enterprise Money System // 36 ESSAYS // 40 ESSAY 1: The Money Pact // 41 ESSAY 2: Ignorance of Money // 43 ESSAY 3: The Right-Wing Socialists // 45 ESSAY 4: Beclouded Revolution // 47 ESSAY 5: Warfare // 52 ESSAY 6: The Naturalness of Competition // 54 ESSAY 7: The Essential Capitalism // 56 ESSAY 8: Democracy Realized // 58 This classic of individualist thought, privately printed by the author in 1949, is supplemented with eight previously published essays. E.C. Riegel sensitively and yet uncompromisingly explores the meaning of individualism, the market process, and economic democracy. He proposes as a new democratic principle the separation of money and state. More than any other single factor, he believes ignorance of the nature and functioning of money to be responsible for the compromise of human freedom. Harry Browne says of this book: "The best explanation of the free market I've seen."