Topics Index
Curated topic articles.
Last updated: 2026-07-16
Contents
| File | Summary | Tags | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austrian Economics | Topic map of Austrian economics in this wiki: praxeology, calculation, the knowledge problem, capital and the business cycle, property, and the destabilizing logic of intervention. | austrian-economics, economics, praxeology, intervention, calculation-problem, knowledge-problem, business-cycle | 2026-06-18 |
| Critiques of Sovereignty and Power | This topic — the wiki’s non-libertarian critiques of state power through Schmitt’s sovereignty/exception/friend-enemy tradition and Foucault’s discipline/biopower tradition — has been folded into the broader State Theory and Totalitarianism hub, which places the same material alongside the Oppenheimer/Tilly conquest-and-war-making account and Arendt’s analysis of totalitarianism. Follow that hub for the full map; this page is retained as a redirect for stable links. | sovereignty, power, carl-schmitt, michel-foucault, state-of-exception, biopower, non-libertarian, redirect | 2026-07-15 |
| Cypherpunk | Topic map for the cypherpunk thread: a 1990s technical-political movement holding that strong cryptography, anonymous protocols, and verifiable scarcity move power from centralized institutions to individuals. This wiki reads cypherpunk through an Austrian-libertarian lens — one implementation thread where sound money meets strong cryptography — while noting that not every cypherpunk shares those politics. | cypherpunk, crypto-anarchy, cryptography, bitcoin, privacy, proof-of-work, austrian-economics, libertarianism | 2026-06-18 |
| Libertarianism | Topic map of this wiki’s libertarian corpus: private property, voluntary exchange, anti-statism, classical-liberal political economy, historical state formation, Tilly’s protection-racket sociology, Arendt/Solzhenitsyn totalitarianism coverage, and non-state legal order. | libertarianism, liberty, anti-statism, property-rights, classical-liberalism, evolution-of-the-state, war-and-state-formation, protection-racket, banality-of-evil, gulag, totalitarianism | 2026-07-15 |
| Money and Banking | Topic map of this wiki’s money-and-banking thread, following the Austrian monetary arc: how money emerges from the market (Menger’s saleableness, Mises’s regression theorem) and what makes it sound; the properties of hard money and the rise and fall of the gold standard; banking, credit expansion, and the Austrian business cycle, with the Federal Reserve and the Cantillon effect; the fiat system that replaced gold after 1971 and its instruments, from capital consumption to CBDCs; and the claim that Bitcoin and privacy coins revive gold’s monetary discipline in digital form. It is the monetary companion to the broader Austrian Economics hub and shares its digital-money nodes with the Cypherpunk hub. | money, banking, monetary-theory, sound-money, gold-standard, fiat, austrian-economics, business-cycle, central-banking, bitcoin, cbdc, hard-money | 2026-07-15 |
| Natural Law | Topic map of this wiki’s natural-law canon: the tradition holding that justice is objective and knowable by reason, standing above the positive law of any state. It traces the lineage from Aristotle’s natural justice and Cicero’s ‘true law is right reason in agreement with nature,’ through Aquinas’s Treatise on Law, the secularizing turn in Grotius and Pufendorf, Locke’s pre-political rights of life, liberty, and property, Spooner’s turning of natural law against legislation itself, and into Rothbard’s reconstruction of libertarian ethics on self-ownership and nonaggression. Natural law is the deep root of the wiki’s natural-rights branch — the moral foundation Rothbard reactivates and that Mises’s consequentialism deliberately declines — and it connects to the School of Salamanca, where natural-rights theory and proto-Austrian economics first met. | natural-law, natural-rights, natural-order, classical-canon, self-ownership, aristotle, cicero, aquinas, grotius, locke, spooner, rothbard | 2026-07-15 |
| Objectivism and Ayn Rand | Topic map of this wiki’s Ayn Rand and Objectivism coverage. Objectivism is Rand’s philosophical system — objective reality, reason as the only means of knowledge, rational self-interest as the moral standard, and laissez-faire capitalism as the only social system consistent with it. The wiki treats Rand as a fellow-traveler of its libertarianism who reaches broadly similar political conclusions (individual rights, anti-collectivism, unregulated capitalism) from a distinct foundation: ethical egoism rather than natural-rights deontology or Austrian consequentialism. The hub gathers the fiction (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Anthem) and its famous set-piece arguments — Galt’s speech, Francisco’s money speech, Rearden’s trial, Ragnar Danneskjold, the sanction of the victim — alongside the nonfiction (Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, The Virtue of Selfishness). A calibration note runs throughout: Rand’s arguments are presented as hers, persuasive within her frame, not as settled economics. | objectivism, ayn-rand, capitalism, rational-self-interest, laissez-faire, minarchism, individualism, anti-collectivism | 2026-07-15 |
| Privacy and Cryptography | Topic map for the wiki’s privacy-and-cryptography thread: Hillebrand’s Austrian theory of privacy, Lowery’s power-projection thesis, the resistance axiom, state and corporate surveillance, Bitcoin, proof-of-work, and parallel-economy implementation. | privacy, cryptography, cypherpunk, bitcoin, surveillance, austrian-economics, power-projection, national-security | 2026-07-15 |
| Start Here | An onboarding guide for first-time readers who may know nothing about Austrian economics, libertarianism, or cypherpunk. It explains each of the three threads in everyday language, shows the single idea that unites them — voluntary cooperation among individuals versus coercion by concentrated power — and points to the best first articles, topic maps, and reading paths for going deeper. | start-here, introduction, overview, getting-started, navigation, austrian-economics, libertarianism, cypherpunk | 2026-07-01 |
| State Theory and Totalitarianism | Topic map of how this wiki theorizes and criticizes state power, gathering the libertarian account and the non-libertarian traditions that pressure-test it. The libertarian baseline treats the state as institutionalized conquest and monopoly coercion (Oppenheimer, Nock, Rothbard). Charles Tilly’s historical sociology reads war-making and state-making as organized crime — protection rackets with the advantage of legitimacy. Carl Schmitt exposes sovereignty as the power to decide the exception and to name enemies; Michel Foucault shows modern power disciplining bodies and administering populations through biopower rather than only prohibiting. Hannah Arendt and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn mark the break to totalitarianism as a novel form of rule built on ideology, terror, mass atomization, and the destruction of the person. Most of these thinkers are not libertarians; the wiki uses them as external pressure-tests on state power, not as endorsements. This hub absorbs the former Critiques of Sovereignty and Power topic. | state-theory, totalitarianism, sovereignty, power, conquest, war-and-state-formation, carl-schmitt, michel-foucault, hannah-arendt, charles-tilly, franz-oppenheimer, biopower, state-of-exception | 2026-07-15 |
Categories
- topic: austrian-economics.md, critiques-of-sovereignty-and-power.md, cypherpunk.md, libertarianism.md, privacy-and-cryptography.md
Recent Changes
- 2026-05-28: Added
cypherpunktopic map covering the manifestos (May, Hughes, Barlow), the technical lineage (Diffie-Hellman → Chaum → Hashcash → b-money → Bit Gold → Bitcoin), the Szabo-as-Austrian-bridge thesis, and the modern synthesis writers (Saifedean, Rochard, Farrington). Adjacent to but distinct fromprivacy-and-cryptography: cypherpunk emphasizes the political-movement axis, privacy-and-cryptography emphasizes praxeology of privacy. - 2026-05-12: Added
critiques-of-sovereignty-and-powerand refreshedlibertarianismfor the Schmitt/Foucault non-libertarian critique cluster. - 2026-05-10: Updated
libertarianismwith Tilly 1985, Eichmann, and Gulag coverage for the state-formation and totalitarianism poles - 2026-05-10: Updated
libertarianismwith Arendt’s totalitarianism framework as the dictatorship-pole gap closure - 2026-05-10: Updated
libertarianismwith Tilly as the new non-libertarian historical-sociology angle - 2026-05-10: Refreshed
libertarianismwith the full-text Hoppe regime-comparison source - 2026-05-10: Updated
libertarianismwith the historical state-formation thread - 2026-05-10: Updated
privacy-and-cryptographywith Lowery’s national-security proof-of-work lens - 2026-05-10: Added
privacy-and-cryptographytopic map and updatedaustrian-economicsfor Hillebrand’s privacy/cypherpunk extension - 2026-05-05: Compile pass added new topics articles from the Mises and Hayek ingest