Title: 
War Collectivism
Author: 
Murray N. Rothbard
Updated: 
5/24/2012 12:35:45 PM
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<p><i>War Collectivism: Power, Business, and the Intellectual Class in World War I </i>
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More than any other single period, World War I was the critical watershed for the American business system. It was a "war collectivism," a totally planned economy run largely by big-business interest through the instrumentality of the central government, which served as the model, the precedent, and the inspiration for state corporate capitalism for the remainder of the century.
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Paperback, 134 pages, ISBN: 9781610162500
<br> These essays appear together for the first time as <i>War Collectivism.</i></p>
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TABLE OF CONTENTS </b>
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<li>War Collectivism in World War I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
<li>World War I as Fulfillment:
<li>Power and the Intellectuals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
<li>Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
<li>Piestism and Prohibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
<li>Women at War and at the Polls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
<li>Savings Our Boys from Alcohol and Vice . . . . . . . . . .74
<li>The New Republic Collectivists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
<li>Economics in Service of the State:
<li>The Empiricism of Richard T. Ely. . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
<li>Economics in Service of the State:
<li>Government and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
<li>Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
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War Collectivism in World War I<br>

This is reprinted from A New History of Leviathan, Ronald Radosh and
Murray N. Rothbard, eds. (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1972), pp. 66–
110.
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World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals<br>

1 An earlier version of this paper was delivered at a Pacific Institute Conference
on “Crisis and Leviathan,” at Menlo Park, Calif., October 1986. It appeared
in print in the Journal of Libertarian Studies 9, no. 1 (Winter, 1989). It was
reprinted in John V. Denson, ed., The Costs of War: America’s Pyrrhic Victories
(New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1997). The title of this paper
is borrowed from the pioneering last chapter of James Weinstein’s excellent
work, The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State, 1900–1918 (Boston: Beacon
Press, 1968). The last chapter is entitled, “War as Fulfillment.”
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