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Murray Rothbard

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The "Partnership" of Government and Business
Murray Rothbard September 1990
The Free Market 3
"A Note on Burke's Vindication of the Natural Society"
Murray N. Rothbard

Journal of the History of Ideas, Volume 19, Number 1 (January 1958), pp. 114-118.
Related: Biography, Mixed Economy, Economists, Government, Comparative Systems, Cultural Economics 		3
"Austrian Definitions of the Supply of Money"
Murray N. Rothbard

New Directions in Austrian Economics, edited and with introduction by Louis M. Spadaro. Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel (1978), pp. 143–56. Also published in The Logic of Action, Vol. I.
Related: Money/Banking, Money, Monetary Policy 		3
"Austrian Theory of Money, The"
Murray N. Rothbard  The Foundations of Modern Austrian Economics, Edwin G. Dolan, ed., Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1976, pp. 160-184.See also in The Logic of Action One: Method, Money, and the Austrian School (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1997), pp. 297-320
Related: Overview, Money/Banking, Money, Monetary Policy, Cycle History 		3
"Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar, The"
Murray N. Rothbard  In Search of a Monetary Constitution, Leland B. Yeager, ed., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962, pp. 94-136, and Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1991.
Related: Money/Banking 		5
"Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar, The"
Murray N. Rothbard  In Search of a Monetary Constitution, Leland B. Yeager, ed., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962, pp. 94-136, and Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1991.
Related: Money/Banking 		7
"Case for a Genuine Gold Dollar, The"
Murray N. Rothbard

 The Gold Standard: Perspectives in the Austrian School. Edited with an Introduction by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Copyright © 1992. The Ludwig von Mises Institute. Auburn, Ala. Pp. 116-130; The Gold Standard: An Austrian Perspective. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1985, pp. 1-17; Reprinted in The Logic of Action One: Method, Money, and the Austrian School. Glos, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1997, pp. 364-383.  PDF edition of this article.
Related: Money/Banking, Money, Monetary Policy, Cycle History 		5
"Defense of 'Extreme Apriorism, In"
Murray N. Rothbard

 The Logic of Action One. Murray N. Rothbard, ed., UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1997, pp.1oo-108.
Related: Methodology, Subjectivism, Interdisciplinary, Econ. Methodology, Math. Methods, Econometrics 		3
"Defense of Extreme Apriorism, In"
Murray N. Rothbard  Southern Economic Journal, January 1957, 23(1), pp. 314-320.
Related: Methodology, Subjectivism, Econ. Methodology, Heterodox, Math. Methods, Econometrics, Core 		3
"Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure"
Murray N. Rothbard The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle, compiled by Richard M. Ebeling, 1996, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn.
This essay was originally published as a minibook by the Constitutional Alliance of Lansing, Michigan, 1969.
Related: Cycles, Prices/Cycles 		5
"Ethics and Capitalism, Part I, Catholicism"
Murray N. Rothbard

Unpublished memo to the Volcker Fund, May 1960. Rothbard Archives (Mises Institute)
Related: Interdisciplinary, Comparative Systems, Cultural Economics, Religion 		3
"Fallacy of the 'Public Sector', The"
Murray N. Rothbard

New Individualist Review (Summer 1961): 3-7; The Logic of Action Two (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1997), pp. 171-179. An edition that preserves the Logic pagination in PDF is here. 
Related: Mixed Economy, Public Economics, Government, Taxation, Fiscal Policies, Public Goods, Government Spending, National Budget, Local Government, Health Education and Welfare, Health, Education, Welfare, Regulation, Development Policy, Other Systems, Comparative Systems, Conservation, Transportation 		5
"Frank S. Meyer: The Fusionist as Libertarian Manqué"
Murray N. Rothbard

Modern Age, Fall 1981, pp. 352-363.
Related: Biography, Interdisciplinary, post-1925 Economic Thought, Economists, Cultural Economics, Political Philosophy, Intellectual History, Strategy 		3
"Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism, and the Division of Labor"
Murray N. Rothbard  The Logic of Action Two, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1997, pp.3-35.
Related: Wages, Labor Economics, Demographics, Labor Costs, Unions, Discrimination, Books 		Online Books 5
"George Orwell and the Cold War: A Reconsideration"
Murray N. Rothbard

"George Orwell and the Cold War: A Reconsideration" appeared in Reflections on America, 1984: An Orwell Symposium. Ed. Robert Mulvihill. Athens and London, University of Georgia Press. 1986.
Related: History, The State, Literature 		5
"Keynes, the Man"
Murray N. Rothbard

Dissent on Keynes: A Critical Appraisal of Keynesian Economics, Edited by Mark Skousen. New York: Praeger (1992). Pp. 171–198.
Related: Biography, Wages, Econ. Thought, post-1925 Economic Thought, Economists 		3
"Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution"
Murray N. Rothbard   Cato Journal, Spring 1982, pp. 55-99; and Walter Block, ed., Economics and the Environment, Vancouver, Canada: Fraser Institute, 1990. See also in The Logic of Action Two, pp.121-170.,
Related: Welfare, Mixed Economy, Welfare Economics, Public Economics, Public Goods, Law & Economics, Basic Law, Regulation, Capitalism, Comparative Systems, Agircultural Economics, Conservation, Property, Law, Science 		3
"Ludwig von Mises and the Paradigm for Our Age"
Murray N. Rothbard  Modern Age (Fall 1971): 370–79. Appearing also in The Logic of Action One: Method, Money, and the Austrian School. Glos, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1997, pp. 195-210
Related: Biography, Methodology, Core 		3
"Lysander Spooner: Libertarian Pietist"
Murray N. Rothbard Introduction to "Vices are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty" by Lysander Spooner (Cupertino, CA: Tanstaafl, 1977; published first in 1875)
Related: Biography, Law, Anarchy, The State 		5
"Memorandum on Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism" (1957)
Murray N. Rothbard

On Aug. 8, 1956, Murray N. Rothbard wrote to Richard C. Cornuelle of the Volker Fund, strongly recommending Emil Kauder’s researches into the Aristotelian background of marginal utility and Austrian economic theory (Rothbard Papers). In a memo of February 1957, “Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism,” Rothbard set down some thoughts on these matters. Previously unpublished.
Related: Econ. Thought, Interdisciplinary, pre-1925 Economic Thought, Cultural Economics, Religion 		3
"Mises and the Role of the Economist in Public Policy"
Murray N. Rothbard

 (1993)  in The Meaning of Ludwig von Mises, Jeffrey M. Herbener, ed., Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute; Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 193-208.
Related: Biography, Methodology, Mixed Economy, Economists, Public Economics, Government, Public Goods, Other Systems, Comparative Systems, Strategy 		5
"Mises's Human Action: Comment."
Murray N. Rothbard

  American Economic Review, March 1951, pp. 181-185.
Related: Methodology, Subjectivism, Schools of Thought, Economists, Econ. Methodology 		3
"Myth and Truth about Libertarianism"
Murray N. Rothbard Modern Age, Winter 1980, p. 9-15.
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"Myths of the Cold War"
Murray N. Rothbard Originally published in Rampart Journal of Individualist Thought, Summer 1966, pp. 65-76.
Related: History, Law, The State, War 		5
"New Light on the Prehistory of the Austrian School"
Murray N. Rothbard Edwin G. Dolan, ed., The Foundations of Modern Austrian Economics. Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1976, pp. 52-74. See also in "The Logic of Action One".
Related: Methodology, Subjectivism, Wages, Econ. Thought, Interdisciplinary, pre-1925 Economic Thought, Public Economics, Government, Taxation, Fiscal Policies, Capitalism, Cultural Economics 		5
"Our Future" (review of Orwell's Nineteen Eight-Four)
Murray N. Rothbard

"Our Future", a review of George Orwell's Nineteen Eight-Four (Harcourt, 1949) appeared in Analysis, September 1949, p. 4.
Related: The State, Literature 		5
"Politics of Political Economists, The"
Murray N. Rothbard

 (1997)  The Logic of Action Two, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 217-225.
Related: Methodology, Interdisciplinary, Econ. Methodology, Math. Methods, Econometrics, Math Econ., Micro-Business, Cultural Economics 		3
"Politics of Political Economists: Comment, The"
Murray N. Rothbard

 (1960) "The Quarterly Journal of Economics, November, 74.4, pp. 659-665.
Related: Methodology, Mixed Economy, Econ. Methodology, Heterodox, Math. Methods, Econometrics, Math Econ., Public Economics, Government, Taxation, Fiscal Policies, Public Goods, Government Spending, National Budget, Local Government, Regulation, Other Systems, Comparative Systems 		3
"Praxeology, Value Judgments, and Public Policy"
Murray N. Rothbard

 The Foundations of Modern Austrian Economics, Edwin Dolan, ed. (Kansas City: Sheed and War, 1976), pp. 89-111; The Logic of Action One (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1997), pp. 78-99.
Related: Methodology, Subjectivism, Interdisciplinary, Public Economics, Government 		3
"Praxeology: Reply to Mr. Schuller."
Murray N. Rothbard

  American Economic Review, December 1951, pp. 943-46.
Related: Overview, Methodology, Econ. History, Schools of Thought, Economists, Econ. Methodology 		3
"Praxeology: The Methodology of Austrian Economics"
Murray N. Rothbard

The Logic of Action One: Method, Money, and the Austrian School by Murray N. Rothbard (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1997), pp. 58-77; The Foundations of Modern Austrian Economics, Edwin Dolan, ed. (Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1976) , pp. 19-39.]
Related: Methodology, Subjectivism, Econ. Methodology, Math. Methods, Econometrics, Macro Models, Core 		3
"Praxeology: The Methodology of Austrian Economics"
Murray N. Rothbard

The Logic of Action One: Method, Money, and the Austrian School by Murray N. Rothbard (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1997), pp. 58-77; The Foundations of Modern Austrian Economics, Edwin Dolan, ed. (Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1976) , pp. 19-39.
Related: Overview, Methodology, Schools of Thought, Econ. Methodology, Heterodox, Math. Methods, Econometrics, Math Econ. 		3
"Protectionism and the Destruction of Prosperity"
Murray N. Rothbard

First published as "The Dangerous Nonsense of Protectionism" (Monograph, Auburn: Mises Institute, 1986) (also available as HTML text)
Related: Wages, Mixed Economy, International Economics, International Finance, Trade History, Country Studies, Comparative Systems 		3
"Science, Technology, and Government"
Murray N. Rothbard

Previously unpublished manuscript from the Rothbard Archives, dated 1959. Copyright Mises Institute 2004.
Related: Entrepreneurship, Mixed Economy, Interdisciplinary, Economic Development, Development Policy, Technology, Country Studies, Capitalism, Socialism, Socialist Transition, Science 		5
"Single Tax: Economic and Moral Implications, The"
Murray N. Rothbard

 (1997)  in The Logic of Action Two, UK: Edward Elgar, pp.294-305.
Related: Mixed Economy, Public Economics, Government, Taxation, Fiscal Policies, Public Goods, Government Spending, National Budget, Local Government, Health Education and Welfare, Health, Education, Welfare, Other Systems, Comparative Systems, Taxation 		3
"Single Tax: Economic and Moral Implications, The" and "Reply to Georgist Criticisms, A"
Murray N. Rothbard  (1997 )  and in The Logic of Action One:  Applications and Criticisms from the Austrian School, London: Edward Elgar, pp. 294-310.
Related: Econ. Thought, pre-1925 Economic Thought, post-1925 Economic Thought, Economists, Taxation 		3
"Statistics: Achilles' Heel of Government"
Murray N. Rothbard  The Logic of Action Two, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1997, pp.180-184. This essay was published in Essays on Liberty, VIII (Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1961), pp.255-261, and in The Freeman, June 1961, pp. 40-44.) It was republished in The Logic of Action Two (Edward Elgar, 1997, pp. 180-184). Rothbard had developed a similar argument in “The Politics of Political Economists: Comment,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 74, 4 (November 1960), pp. 659-665, a critique of some theses put forward by economist George Stigler.
Related: Methodology, Econ. Methodology, Government, Fiscal Policies, Government Spending, National Budget, Local Government, Industrial Policy, Business Admin., Government History, Development Policy, Technology, Comparative Systems 		3
"The Case Against the Flat Tax"
Murray N. Rothbard

The Free Market Reader, L.H. Rockwell, Jr., ed., (Mises Institute, 1988), pp. 142-362.
Related: Taxation, Fiscal Policies, Public Goods, Government Spending, National Budget, Local Government, Taxation 		3
"The Development of the Misesian Theory of Interventionism"
Don Lavoie Murray N. Rothbard From Method, Process, and Austrian Economics Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises, Edited by Israel M. Kirzner (New York University) Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, D.C. Heath and Company, 1982, Pp. 169-83. Comment by Murray N. Rothbard.
Related: Calculation, Mixed Economy, Public Economics, Government, Taxation, Fiscal Policies, Public Goods, Government Spending, National Budget, Taxation 		3
"The Federal Reserve as a Cartelization Device"
Murray N. Rothbard Chapter from Money in Crisis, edited by Barry Siegel (Pacific Institute, 1984), pp. 89-136.
Related: Money/Banking, Books 		3
"The Gasoline Tax"
Murray N. Rothbard

Making Economic Sense, Mises Institute, 1985, pp. 209-210


Related: Taxation 		5
"The Hermeneutical Invasion of Philosophy and Economics"
Murray N. Rothbard

  Review of Austrian Economics, 1989, (3), pp. 45-60. See also "The Logic of Action Two" pp.275-293.
Related: Methodology, Econ. Thought, post-1925 Economic Thought, Econ. Methodology, Heterodox, Philosophy, Austrian Method 		5
"The Mantle of Science"
Murray N. Rothbard

Scientism and Values, Helmut Schoeck and James W. Wiggins, eds. (Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand), 1960; The Logic of Action One: Method, Money, and the Austrian School (Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 1997), pp. 3-23. This essay also available in a PDF file.
Related: Methodology, Subjectivism, Price/Cost, Schools of Thought, Econ. Methodology, Heterodox, Math. Methods, Econometrics, Math Econ. 		5
"The Mises We Never Knew"
Murray N. Rothbard

Libertarian Review, April 1978, pp. 37-38.
Related: Biography 		5
"The Myth of Efficiency"
Murray N. Rothbard in Time, Uncertainty, and Disequilibrium, Mario J. Rizzo, ed., Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1979, pp. 92-98. see also in The Logic of Action One, pp. 266-273. HTML version. In Spanish.
Related: Welfare, Equilibrium, Welfare Economics, Collectives, Prices/Cycles, Government, Law & Economics, Basic Law, Regulation, Core 		3
"The Myth of Neutral Taxation"
Murray N. Rothbard

"The Cato Journal", Fall, 1981, pp. 519-564; The Logic of Action Two (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1997, pp. 56-108
Related: Competition, Mixed Economy, Production, Market Structure, Welfare Economics, Collectives, Finance, Government, Taxation, Public Goods, Government Spending, National Budget, Law & Economics, Basic Law, Regulation, Firm Strategy, Nonprofits, Industrial Policy, Business Econ., Accounting, Capitalism, Other Systems, Comparative Systems, Taxation 		3
"The New Banner Interview with Murray N. Rothbard"
Murray N. Rothbard The New Banner, February 25, 1972
Related: Biography, Strategy 		5
"The Political Thought of Étienne de la Boétie"
Murray N. Rothbard

Montreal, Canada: Black Rose Books, 1975, pp. 9-38 (This online edition includes full text of book). HTML available here.
Related: Welfare, Mixed Economy, Schools of Thought, pre-1925 Economic Thought, Economists, Heterodox, Government, Taxation, Fiscal Policies, Public Goods, Government Spending, Law & Economics, Basic Law, Legal System, Capitalism, Socialist Transition, Other Systems 		3
"The Present State of Austrian Economics"
Murray N. Rothbard Working Paper from the Ludwig von Mises Institute, November 1992. Reprinted in The Logic of Action One: Method, Money, and the Austrian School. Glos, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1997, pp. 111-172. (Buy this book) Reprinted in Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, Vol. 6 No. 1 (March 1995), pp. 43-89.
Related: Overview, Subjectivism, Price/Cost, Entrepreneurship, Econ. Thought, Schools of Thought, pre-1925 Economic Thought, post-1925 Economic Thought, Econ. Methodology, Heterodox 		3
"The Puritans "Purify": Theocracy in Massachusetts"
Murray N. Rothbard
Related: Econ. History 		5
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