Index

action axiom, 25. See also under economics; human action and interaction; value

barter economy, 72-76, 83

Bastiat, Frédéric, 16

boom, 106, 110-19

boom-bust cycle, 105-19. See also boom; bust; monetary intervention

business cycle. See boom-bust cycle

bust, 81, 114-19

capital, 57-62, 65-66, 81, 84, 86-87, 89, 96, 98-99, 107-11, 113-14, 116-17, 119

capital goods, 57-59, 89, 116, 119

competition, 45-47, 87-90, 97, 116

SCIENCE AND CULTURE SERIES

JOSEPH HUSSLEIN, S.J., PH.D., GENERAL EDITOR

THE MENACE OF THE HERD

or

Procrustes at Large

The Menace of the Herd

or

Procrustes at Large

Copyright, 1943, by The Bruce Publishing Company
Made in the United States of America

This book is dedicated to all those who defend our freedom in all five continents of this earth, with the sword, not the pen.

PRO-CRUS’TES (prō-krŭs’tēz) (Gr. Antiq.) A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut off their legs to adapt them to its length — whence the metaphorical phrase, the bed of Procrustes. — Webster’s International Dictionary, 1902, p. 1142.

VIGOROUSLY written and profoundly concerned with problems of the hour, this book will come as a challenge to many.

For an undertaking of this nature world contacts are needed, and these the author possesses in an unusual degree. His continued travels have made of him a citizen of the world, with international sympathies and close familiarity with a score of languages.

(An explanatory note.)