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Language
  
English

Pages
  
ix, 291 pp.

Author
  
Ludwig von Mises

Country
  
United States of America

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Publication date
  
1944

Originally published
  
1944

Genre
  
Non-fiction

OCLC
  
967870

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Publisher
  
Yale University Press, Libertarian Press

Subjects
  
Nazism, Nationalism, Socialism, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany

Similar
  
Ludwig von Mises books, Libertarianism books, Nazism books

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Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War is a book by Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises first published in 1944 by Yale University Press. It is one of the most influential writings in Libertarian social thought and critique of statist ideology and socialism, examining the rise of Nazism as an example. The book treats Nazism as a species of orthodox socialist theory. At the same time the book offers a critique of economic interventionism, industrial central planning, the welfare state and world government, denouncing the trends of the Western Allies towards the total state. The book was made available online by the Ludwig von Mises Institute in 2004.

Contents

Publication history

  • Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1944.
  • Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1969. ISBN 0-87000-069-1.
  • Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War. Spring Mills, PA: Libertarian Press, 1985. ISBN 0-910884-15-3.

    • Reviews

  • Basch, Antonin (1944). Review of Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government. The American Economic Review 34.4, 899–903.
  • Baster, A. S. J. (1945). Review of Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government. Economica, New Series 12.45, 39–40.
  • Coker, Francis W. (1944). Review of Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government; The Rise of the Total State and Total War. The American Political Science Review 38.5, 1003–1005.
  • Hessen, Robert (1970). Review of Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government. The Objectivist 9.8.
  • Hexner, Ervin (1945). Review of Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government. The Rise of the Total State and Total War. Social Forces 23.4, 466–467.
  • Kohn, Hans (1945). Review of Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War. The American Historical Review 50.3, 531–533.
  • Minshall, T. H. (1947). Review of Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government. The Rise of the Total State and Total War. International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944–) 23.2, 240–241.
  • Passant, E. J. (1944). Review of Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government, and Norman Angell, Let the People Know. The Economic Journal 54.215/216, 384–387.
  • Robson, Charles B. (1945). Review of Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government; The Rise of the Total State and Total War. The Journal of Politics 7.1, 98–100.
  • Rothbard, Murray N. (1975). Reviews of Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government and Theory and History. Libertarian Review, June 1975, p. 1.
  • Simons, Henry C. (1944). Review of Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 236, Adolescents in Wartime, pp. 192–193
  • Yoder, Fred R. (1944). Review of Ludwig von Mises, The Omnipotent State (sic). American Sociological Review 10:2 (1944), p. 326
  • Hula, Erich. (1945). Review of Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government. The Rise of the Total State and Total War. Social Research 12:4 (November 1945), pp. 509–511
  • Peardon, T. P. (1945). Review of Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War. Political Science Quarterly 60:1 (March 1945), pp. 130–131

    • Translations

  • (Spanish) Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotencia Gubernamental. Translated by Pedro Elgoibar. Mexico: Editorial Hermes, n.d.
  • (French) Ludwig von Mises, Le Gouvernement Omnipotent de L`État Totalitaire à la Guerre Total. Translated by M. de Hulster. Paris: Librairie de Médicis, 1947.
  • (German) Ludwig von Mises, Im Namen des Staates, oder Die Gefahren des Kollektivismus [In the Name of the State: or the Dangers of Collectivism]. Stuttgart: Bonn Aktuell, 1978. ISBN 3-87959-091-5
  • (Russian) Людвиг фон Мизес, Всемогущее правительство: Тотальное государство и тотальная война. Moscow: Социум, 2006. ISBN 978-5-901901-60-1.

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