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Galtland Index

Austrian-libertarian topic wiki — political philosophy, monetary theory, history, arguments, critics, and policy debates. Published at https://index.galtland.org/.

Last updated: 2026-05-24

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  • Sources: 74 raw documents
  • Articles: 108 compiled wiki articles
  • Outputs: 1 generated artifacts
  • Last compiled: 2026-05-18
  • Last lint: 2026-05-18 (post-NATO news-lens)

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  • 2026-05-24: thesis — added 2026-05-24-imf-sdr-climate-conditionality; regenerated newsroom indexes and backlinks.

  • 2026-05-18: news-lens — re-filed NATO 3.5%-floor news post under the 2026-05-18 slug; wrote new endorse-stance thesis 2026-05-18-nato-defense-spending-floor-protection-racket (prior 2026-05-16-… and 2026-05-17-… index references had no on-disk files) plus rewrote focused tilly-on-protection-rackets and rothbard-on-war-and-the-state concept articles as X-thread citation targets; updated five stale See-Also references from the 2026-05-16 slug to the new 2026-05-18 slug across war-and-state-formation, state-power-and-intervention, political-means-and-economic-means, references/anatomy-of-the-state, and references/war-making-and-state-making-as-organized-crime.

  • 2026-05-18: ingest — two NATO primary-source documents → raw/articles/. The 1949 North Atlantic Treaty (Washington, 4 April 1949) supplies Article 3 (“continuous and effective self-help and mutual aid”) as the treaty-level spending hook, plus Article 5 collective defense; the 2014 Wales Summit Declaration (5 September 2014) supplies paragraph 14, the Defence Investment Pledge, which is the textual origin of the 2% of GDP guideline (“aim to move towards the 2% guideline within a decade”) and the 20% major-equipment guideline. Closes the news-lens-flagged gap on post-1949 Atlantic-alliance treaty mechanics — the historical sequence from Article 3 to Wales ¶14 to the May 2026 raise.

  • 2026-05-18: ingest — OECD (2018), The Role and Design of Net Wealth Taxes in the OECD, Tax Policy Studies No. 26 → raw/papers/. Metadata stub plus partial full-text aggregate (Foreword, Executive Summary, Ch. 1 overview/repeal-sequence, Ch. 5 conclusions). Closes the news-lens-flagged gap on the post-1990 European net wealth tax repeal sequence: Austria 1994, Denmark 1997, Germany 1997, Netherlands 2001, Finland/Iceland/Luxembourg 2006, Sweden 2007, France’s 1 January 2018 ISF→IFI conversion; 12 → 4 OECD countries levying individual net wealth taxes between 1990 and 2017.

  • 2026-05-18: news-lens — re-filed EU wealth-tax directive news post under the 2026-05-18 slug; wrote new critique-stance thesis 2026-05-18-eu-wealth-tax-directive-capital-consumption (the pre-existing 2026-05-17-… index reference had no on-disk file) plus focused rothbard-on-wealth-tax and mises-on-capital-consumption concept articles as X-thread citation targets; updated five stale See-Also references in state-power-and-intervention, political-means-and-economic-means, references/power-and-market, references/liberalism, references/democracy-the-god-that-failed, and theses/state-as-parasite-thesis from the 2026-05-17 slug to the 2026-05-18 slug.

  • 2026-05-18: news-lens — re-filed fourth Argentina rent-decontrol news post under the 2026-05-18 slug; reused the existing argentina-rent-decontrol-2023 thesis (rewrote thesis body and focused mises-on-rent-ceilings and rothbard-on-price-controls concept articles, which were stale-indexed but missing on disk in the trial wiki) as X-thread citation targets.

  • 2026-05-17: news-lens — re-filed third Argentina rent-decontrol news post under the 2026-05-17 slug; reused the existing argentina-rent-decontrol-2023 thesis (rewrote thesis body, which was stale-indexed but missing on disk in the trial wiki), pointing at the existing focused mises-on-rent-ceilings and rothbard-on-price-controls concept articles as X-thread citation targets.

  • 2026-05-17: news-lens — re-filed May 2026 Fed rate-cut news post under the 2026-05-17 slug; wrote new endorse-stance thesis 2026-05-17-fed-may-2026-rate-cut-abct (the pre-existing 2026-05-16-… index reference had no on-disk file); wrote focused mises-on-credit-expansion and rothbard-on-fed-induced-boom concept articles as X-thread citation targets; updated the ABCT concept See Also pointer.

  • 2026-05-17: news-lens — filed EU wealth-tax directive news post and wrote critique-stance thesis 2026-05-17-eu-wealth-tax-directive-capital-consumption; added focused rothbard-on-wealth-tax and mises-on-capital-consumption concept articles as X-thread citation targets; added reciprocal See Also backlinks on the cited concept and sister focused articles.

  • 2026-05-16: news-lens — filed NATO defense-spending-floor news post and wrote endorse-stance thesis 2026-05-16-nato-defense-spending-floor-protection-racket; added focused tilly-on-protection-rackets and rothbard-on-war-and-the-state concept articles as X-thread citation targets; added reciprocal See Also backlinks on the cited concept, reference, and thesis pages.

  • 2026-05-16: ingest+compile — split Rothbard’s Power and Market: Government and the Economy (1970) out of the combined MES + P&M aggregate. New raw full-text file raw/articles/2026-05-16-power-and-market-government-and-economy-full-text.md (7 chapters + bibliography, ~683 KB) extracted from the Mises online-book HTML export; new reference page wiki/references/power-and-market.md; updated dual-link citations in rothbard-on-price-controls and the argentina-rent-decontrol-2023 thesis; updated raw/articles and references indexes.

  • 2026-05-16: news-lens — filed ECB digital-euro launch news post and wrote endorse-stance thesis 2026-05-16-digital-euro-launch-cbdc-total-intervention; added focused hillebrand-on-cbdcs concept article as X-thread citation target; added reciprocal See Also backlinks on the cited concept, reference, and topic pages.

  • 2026-05-16: news-lens — filed May 2026 Fed rate-cut news post and wrote endorse-stance thesis 2026-05-16-fed-may-2026-rate-cut-abct; added focused mises-on-credit-expansion and rothbard-on-fed-induced-boom concept articles as X-thread citation targets; added 16 reciprocal See Also backlinks on the cited concept, reference, and topic pages.

  • 2026-05-16: news-lens — re-filed Argentina rent-decontrol news post under the 2026-05-16 slug, reused the existing argentina-rent-decontrol-2023 thesis, and added focused mises-on-rent-ceilings and rothbard-on-price-controls concept articles as X-thread citation targets; updated reciprocal See Also entries on the broad concept and reference pages.

  • 2026-05-12: news-lens — filed Argentina rent-decontrol news post and wrote endorse-stance thesis argentina-rent-decontrol-2023; added reciprocal See Also entries across 16 cited articles; regenerated indexes.

  • 2026-05-12: Closed four knowledge gaps with 10 new full-text raw aggregates, one expanded Tilly aggregate, 22 new compiled articles, the updated thesis, regenerated indexes, and a clean bidirectional See Also graph.

  • 2026-05-10: Ingested and compiled Tilly 1985, Arendt Eichmann in Jerusalem, and Solzhenitsyn The Gulag Archipelago: 3 new raw full-text sources, 6 new articles, and 11 updated articles for protection-racket sociology, banality of evil, total domination, and Gulag documentation.

  • 2026-05-10: Ingested and compiled Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism: 1 new raw full-text source, 4 new articles, and 8 updated articles for totalitarianism, mass society, and state-critique links.

  • 2026-05-10: Ingested and compiled Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital, and European States partial UCSD scan: 1 new raw source, 3 new articles, and 6 updated articles for war-and-state-formation, capital/coercion, and state-evolution links.

  • 2026-05-10: Upgraded Hoppe’s Democracy: The God That Failed from bibliographic stub to full-text Internet Archive OCR source; source count unchanged at 47; refreshed the reference and downstream regime-theory articles.

  • 2026-05-10: Ingested and compiled Oppenheimer, Nock, and Hoppe state-evolution sources: 3 new raw sources, 7 new articles, and 8 updated articles for historical state formation, political/economic means, consent, regime comparison, and backlinks.

  • 2026-05-10: Compiled Lowery’s Softwar into 4 new articles: softwar, jason-lowery, power-projection, and abstract-power-hierarchies. Updated praxeology-of-privacy, state-power-and-intervention, privacy-and-cryptography, the-praxeology-of-privacy, nonaggression-and-property-rights, market-anarchism-and-private-law, and resistance-axiom for source integration and reciprocal links.

  • 2026-05-10: Ingested Major Jason Lowery, Softwar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin (MIT SDM thesis, CC BY 4.0), adding the national-security/proof-of-work power-projection lens to the Bitcoin and abstract-authority thread.

  • 2026-05-10: Compiled Nietzsche and Hillebrand ingests into 6 new articles: thus-spake-zarathustra-the-new-idol, the-praxeology-of-privacy, max-hillebrand, praxeology-of-privacy, resistance-axiom, and privacy-and-cryptography. Updated state-power-and-intervention, praxeology, nonaggression-and-property-rights, austrian-economics, hans-hermann-hoppe, and ludwig-von-mises for cross-references and source integration.

  • 2026-05-10: Ingested Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra Pt. I Ch. XI “The New Idol” (Thomas Common trans., 1909, Project Gutenberg #1998), and Max Hillebrand, The Praxeology of Privacy: Economic Logic in Cypherpunk Implementation (public-domain v0.2.0, official Towards Liberty EPUB/PDF). Nietzsche adds a pre-libertarian state-as-monster primary source; Hillebrand extends the praxeology-of-privacy, Bitcoin, and cypherpunk implementation thread.

  • 2026-05-09: Ingested Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit (1912 German; 1934 English trans. by H. E. Batson; 1953 Yale “new edition” with Monetary Reconstruction essay). The 500-page PDF contains the original 1912 statement of the present-good-for-future-good definition of credit (“If credit in the economic sense means the exchange of a present good or a present service against a future good or a future service…”), closing the documented gap behind the credit-and-deferred-payment concept article. The article should now be re-compiled to cite TMC directly instead of via Hoppe’s quotation.

  • 2026-05-09: Added credit-and-deferred-payment concept article — present-good-for-future-good definition from MES, “credit transactions and deferred payments” from Human Action, and book/commercial credit from Hayek’s Prices and Production. Closes the previously-flagged gap between Austrian credit definition and folk usage and supplies the foundational definition that the existing austrian-business-cycle-theory article presupposes.

  • 2026-05-06: Ingested Rothbard, America’s Great Depression (1963; Mises Institute 5th ed., 2000, 411 pp); wrote a reference article and a historical-application section in the austrian-business-cycle-theory concept article. The wiki now has the canonical Austrian reading of 1929–1933.

  • 2026-05-06: Ingested Molinari, The Production of Security (1849; Mises Institute 2009 reprint with Rothbard preface, 66 pp); wrote a reference article and positioned it as the 19th-century origin in the private-security-and-insurance and market-anarchism-and-private-law concept articles.

  • 2026-05-05: Compiled 14 new articles (10 references, 4 concepts) from 8 newly-ingested books — Mises (Human Action, Socialism, Liberalism, Theory and History), Hayek (Road to Serfdom, Individualism and Economic Order, Prices and Production), plus a new reference article for Rothbard’s Ethics of Liberty (full text added 2026-05-04)

  • 2026-05-05: Updated topic articles (austrian-economics, libertarianism) and concept articles (state-power-and-intervention, nonaggression-and-property-rights) with the new sources and cross-references

  • 2026-05-05: Added new author reference articles for Ludwig von Mises and F. A. Hayek

  • 2026-05-05: Ingested 7 Mises and Hayek books from cdn.mises.org PDFs

  • 2026-05-04: Normalized split between metadata files and full-text aggregates

  • 2026-05-04: Ingested The Ethics of Liberty full text from the cdn.mises.org PDF

  • 2026-04-25: Added 8 dedicated book reference articles from existing full-text ingests

  • 2026-04-25: Added hans-hermann-hoppe reference article and linked Hoppe mentions across compiled pages

  • 2026-04-22: Added private-security-and-insurance article from market-anarchist security sources

  • 2026-04-22: Added sales-tax-incidence article from Rothbard and Hoppe tax-incidence sources

  • 2026-04-21: Fully recompiled article graph from 20 sources into 8 wiki articles

  • 2026-04-21: Added 8 additional full-text book ingests and retained prior full-text aggregates

  • 2026-04-21: Added full-text aggregate for For a New Liberty

  • 2026-04-21: Expanded Man, Economy, and State into a full-book aggregate

  • 2026-04-21: Ingested Man, Economy, and State

  • 2026-04-21: Ingested 10 Mises libertarian book pages

  • 2026-04-21: Generated Mises Institute libertarian books list

  • 2026-04-21: Initialized topic wiki

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