Democracy, the god that failed : the economics and politics of monarchy, democracy, and natural order / Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. On Time Preference, Government, and the Process of Decivilization -- 2. On Monarchy, Democracy, and the Idea of Natural Order -- 3. On Monarchy, Democracy, Public Opinion, and Delegitimation -- 4. On Democracy, Redistribution, and the Destruction of Property -- 5. On Centralization and Secession -- 6. On Socialism and Desocialization -- 7. On Free Immigration and Forced Integration -- 8. On Free Trade and Restricted Immigration -- 9. On Cooperation, Tribe, City, and State -- 10. On Conservatism and Libertarianism -- 11. On the Errors of Classical Liberalism and the Future of Liberty -- 12. On Government and the Private Production of Defense -- 13. On the Impossibility of Limited Government and the Prospect for Revolution.

"The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy is a lesser evil than democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both. Its methodology is axiomatic-deductive, allowing the writer to derive economic and sociological theorems, and then apply them to interpret historical events."--BOOK JACKET.