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Index

1. Part I: Foundations
2. Chapter 1: Introduction
3. Chapter 2: The state
4. 2.1 Understanding VoTa
5. 2.2 What VoTa Opposes
6. 2.3 Liberty
7. 2.4 Comparison to neoliberalism
8. 2.5 The state without political government
9. 2.6 Fixing anarcho-capitalism
10. 2.7 Bridging capitalists and socialists
11. 2.8 Does wealth tend to concentrate?
12. 2.9 Immigration
13. Chapter 3: Free markets versus democracy?
14. 3.1 Division of labour
15. 3.2 The democratic pressure for redistribution
16. 3.3 The instability of interventionism
17. 3.4 The gold standard and democracy
18. 3.5 Globalisation and democracy
19. 3.6 Cronyism: the common enemy
20. 3.7 The VoTa solution
21. Chapter 4: The Non‑Discrimination Principle (NDP)
22. 4.1 Equality before the law
23. 4.2 What the NDP allows
24. 4.3 The NDP as a stabilising constraint
25. Chapter 5: Consequences of the NDP
26. 5.1 No tyranny of the majority
27. 5.2 No state-enforced segregation
28. 5.3 No disincentives to work and save
29. 5.4 People can discriminate
30. 5.5 No monopolies
31. 5.6 The NDP collapses complexity
32. 5.7 NDP implies tax choice
33. 5.8 NDP implies no political government
34. 5.9 No discretionary enforcement
35. 5.10 No targeted subsidies, incentives, or penalties
36. 5.11 No identity‑based or circumstance‑based legal categories
37. 5.12 No progressive or bracketed taxation
38. 5.13 No zoning or land‑use discrimination
39. 5.14 No targeted welfare or social programs
40. 5.15 No identity‑based political representation
41. 5.16 No selective emergency powers
42. 5.17 No selective access to justice
43. 5.18 No cronyism
44. 5.19 The NDP implies a free market
45. Part II: Laws
46. Chapter 6: Rule of law
47. 6.1 Only Persons bear legal responsibility
48. 6.2 Every business has one owner
49. 6.3 Worker cooperatives without shared ownership
50. Chapter 7: Regulations
51. 7.1 Bureaucracy in Australia
52. 7.2 Hong Kong's free-market growth
53. 7.3 Measuring regulation in the United States
54. 7.4 Jet engines: regulation and the design space
55. Chapter 8: Property rights
56. Chapter 9: Intellectual property
57. Chapter 10: Illicit Drugs
58. Chapter 11: Punishment
59. Chapter 12: Judiciary System
60. Chapter 13: Surveillance
61. Part III: The Economy
62. Chapter 14: The Free Market
63. Chapter 15: Monetary system
64. 15.1 Commercial banks
65. 15.2 Private currencies
66. Chapter 16: Commerce Account and Transaction System (CATS)
67. 16.1 Predica data model for CATS
68. Chapter 17: Tax
69. 17.1 Tax rates
70. 17.2 Central Bank Payment System
71. 17.3 Private C-accounts
72. 17.4 Refunds
73. 17.5 Death, incapacity and abandonment
74. 17.6 Tax choice
75. 17.7 Gifts, Inheritance, and Dependent Allowances
76. 17.8 Product Categories
77. 17.9 Supply Chains
78. 17.10 Compatibility Relation
79. 17.11 Tax evasion avoidance
80. 17.12 Allocation of tax to public services
81. 17.13 Consumption tax is not regressive
82. Chapter 18: Foreign trade
83. 18.1 Purpose-specific foreign-trade intermediaries
84. 18.2 Ensuring consumption tax is paid
85. 18.3 Foreign travel
86. 18.4 Foreign investment
87. 18.5 Foreign remittances
88. Chapter 19: UBI
89. 19.1 Unconditional welfare
90. 19.2 UBI determination and formulas
91. 19.3 Comparison with the Australian Government
92. 19.4 Preventing poverty and welfare exclusion
93. 19.5 Wider effects of the UBI
94. Chapter 20: Economics
95. 20.1 Inflation
96. 20.2 Employment opportunities without formal qualifications
97. 20.3 Predictability and stability
98. 20.4 Austrian economics and VoTa
99. 20.5 VoTa versus Modern Monetary Theory
100. 20.6 The origin of money
101. 20.7 Commercial banks and private money creation
102. 20.8 The boom causes the bust
103. 20.9 Richard Werner
104. 20.10 Modelling VoTa as a dynamic monetary system
105. Part IV: Democracy and Governance
106. Chapter 21: Direct versus representational democracy
107. 21.1 Jordan Peterson on democracy
108. 21.2 Information complexity
109. 21.3 Subjective values vs objective outcomes
110. 21.4 The people should have the final say
111. 21.5 Problems with representational democracy
112. Chapter 22: Initiatives
113. Chapter 23: Voting
114. 23.1 Voluntary voting
115. 23.2 Amendments to the constitution
116. 23.3 Competence check
117. 23.4 Capture by criminal organisations
118. 23.5 Score voting
119. 23.6 Avoiding the tyranny of the majority
120. Chapter 24: Emergency Governance
121. Chapter 25: Proxies
122. Part V: Public services
123. Chapter 26: Contracts
124. Chapter 27: Funding
125. Chapter 28: Employment guarantees
126. Chapter 29: Procurement
127. Chapter 30: Competition
128. Chapter 31: Defence services
129. Chapter 32: Judicial services
130. Chapter 33: Portals
131. Chapter 34: Solving the Economic Calculation Problem for public service
132. Chapter 35: Communal Centres
133. Chapter 36: Child care
134. Chapter 37: Public services model
135. Chapter 38: Failure
136. Part VI: Predica data model
137. Chapter 39: Introduction
138. Chapter 40: Time
139. Chapter 41: Person
140. Chapter 42: Denomination
141. Chapter 43: Account
142. Chapter 44: Loans
143. Chapter 45: Purchases
144. Chapter 46: Escrow
145. Chapter 47: Assets
146. Part VII: Implementation
147. Chapter 48: Online Portals
148. Chapter 49: Robustness and security
149. Chapter 50: Adoption
150. 50.1 Principles
151. 50.2 Incremental transition to privately operated public services
152. 50.3 Monetary-system conversion
153. 50.4 In-place monetary-system conversion
154. 50.5 Legacy central-bank transition
155. 50.6 Tax-system conversion
156. 50.7 Transition from means-tested welfare
157. 50.8 Phasing out discretionary political power
158. 50.9 Education and public understanding
159. 50.10 Financial transition risks requiring further work
160. Chapter 51: Adoption through coexistence
161. 51.1 World-wide coexistence
162. Chapter 52: Adoption through territorial expansion