A short history of human rise and decline - Hans Herman Hoppe

Number of pages: 176 Publisher: Dar Satturo Book description: The following studies attempt to interpret three of the greatest events in human history. First, I will explain the origin of private ownership, especially land ownership, as well as the family and the family residence as the foundational pillars of agriculture that began about 11,000 years ago, with the Neolithic Revolution in the Fertile Crescent of the Near East. Since then, and until the late 19th century, they managed to shape and formulate human life everywhere. Second, I will explain the origin of the Industrial Revolution, which started around 1800, about 200 years ago in England. Throughout thousands of years before this event, humans lived in Malthusian conditions. Population growth steadily exceeded available resources. Every increase in production was "swallowed" by the expanding population, so the real incomes of most people were always under the pressure of population growth accompanied by an increase in individual incomes. Third, I will explain the origin and parallel development of the state as a regional monopoly on making final decisions, as an institution that holds legislative authority and imposes taxes on the inhabitants of a certain area, and its transformation from a royal state with an "absolute" king to a democratic state with a "absolute" people, as events unfolded during the twentieth century.