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Never a Dull Moment
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Author: Murray N. Rothbard
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Category: Big Government, Taxes and Spending, U.S. Economy, War and Foreign Policy
Murray N. Rothbard, Never a Dull Moment: A Libertarian Look at the Sixties , ed. Justin Raimondo (Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2016). [ From the Introduction by Justin Raimondo .] Murray Rothbard was a true polymath. He wasn’t just the number one theoretician of the modern libertarian movement — author of the monumental Man, Economy, and State
The Drive for State and Federal Protective Tariffs in Early America
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Author: Murray N. Rothbard
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Category: Protectionism and Free Trade, Taxes and Spending, U.S. History
[Chapter 3 of Rothbard’s newly edited and released Conceived in Liberty , vol. 5, The New Republic: 1784–1791 .] Every depression generates a clamor among many groups for special privileges at the expense of the rest of society—and the American depression that struck in 1784–1785 was no exception. If excess imports were the culprit, then voluntary
Mercantilism as the Economic Aspect of Absolutism
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Author: Murray N. Rothbard
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Category: Interventionism, Big Government, Taxes and Spending, World History
As the economic aspect of state absolutism, mercantilism was of necessity a system of state-building, of big government, of heavy royal expenditure, of high taxes, of (especially after the late 17th century) inflation and deficit finance, of war, imperialism, and the aggrandizing of the nation-state, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This
Mercantilism and Inflation
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Author: Murray N. Rothbard
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Category: Value and Exchange, The Fed, Money and Banks, Taxes and Spending
In the early 1700s, France turned on the taps of paper-money inflation. At the same time, England turned instead to a more subtle device for accomplishing the same inflationary objective: the creation of a new institution in history — a central bank, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff
The Truth About Taxes
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Author: Murray N. Rothbard
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Category: Taxes and Spending
This essay originally appeared in the Review of Austrian Economics 7, No. 2 (1994), pp. 75–90, as “The Consumption Tax: A Critique”.  Narrated by Harold  Fritsche .  Music by Kevin MacLeod