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Back to SearchPart III: A Böhm-Bawerkian Treatise, 1953–1955
Murray Rothbard’s project drastically changed in mid-1953. Unable to rely on Mises’s sparse treatment of production theory, Rothbard adopted his old …
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Part II: A Misesian Textbook, 1949–1953
Murray Rothbard’s economic perspective changed significantly in 1949 when he met Ludwig von Mises and read his magnum opus, Human Action. With the fi…
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Part I: Neoclassical Training, 1945–1949
Murray Rothbard started his career with a foundational training in neoclassical economics. At Columbia University, he learned from highly regarded pr…
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Introduction
Murray N . Rothbard: The Making of an Austrian Economist is written for everyone interested in Rothbard’s economic theory and Austrian economics in g…
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Paradise Lost, Government Gained
After defeating the British in the American Revolution, Americans had the opportunity to set the country on a long path of freedom. They chose to emp…
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Acknowledgements
This book has been several years in the making. Originally we envisioned it as a collection of letters and unpublished monographs from the Rothbard P…
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Universal Principles of Liberalism and the Politics of Race
In attempts to rectify what are seen as historical wrongs against certain groups of people, western governments have embarked on programs to engage i…
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How Democratic Socialism Created California's Housing Crisis
The democratization of urban planning, the politicization of the environmental movement, and the no-growth movement came together to erect enormous b…
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Domestic Agorism: Eastern Europe’s Example of Libertarianism Without Academic Guidance
The up and down experience with free markets in Eastern Europe following the fall of the Iron Curtain shows that free markets, while undermining the …
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How Much Inequality Is There? Depends on How It’s Measured
For many years, some economists and politicians have painted income equality as a major threat to our economy and well-being. As usual, they understa…
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