In his Introduction, he lists other names used elsewhere to refer to this concept of 'natural order', including 'ordered anarchy', 'private property anarchism', ' anarcho-capitalism', 'autogovernment', 'private law society', and ' pure capitalism'.

Hoppe characterizes democracy as 'publicly owned government', and when he compares it with monarchy-'privately owned government'-he concludes that the latter is preferable however, Hoppe aims to show that both monarchy and democracy are deficient systems compared to his preferred structure for advancing civilization-something he calls the natural order, a system free of both taxation and coercive monopoly in which jurisdictions freely compete for adherents. Hoppe concludes that democracy is the primary cause of a wave of decivilization sweeping the world since World War I, and that democracy must be delegitimized. Potential solutions he discusses include secession, 'shifting of control over the nationalised wealth from a larger, central government to a smaller, regional one' and 'complete freedom of contract, occupation, trade and migration introduced'. He attributes democracy's failures to pressure groups seeking increased government expenditures, regulations and taxation and a lack of counter-measures to them. The book 'examines modern democracies in the light of various evident failures' which, in Hoppe's view, include rising unemployment rates, expanding public debt, and insolvent social security systems. Democracy: The God That Failed is a 2001 book by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, containing a series of thirteen essays on the subject of democracy.

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