Other Schools of Thought

Government power rests on the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. Those who want more government want more compulsion and less freedom.

Rothbard discusses the differences between Mises's and Kirzner's concept of the entrepreneur.

Although often neglected by the English-speaking world, the French Liberal School of the nineteenth century has long provided a robust foundation for modern laissez-faire economics and the pro-freedom ideology we now sometimes call libertarianism.

Keynes believed that all economic problems could be overcome with global inflation. This would bring about a new utopian age in which only social and scientific problems would remain.

What is called economic progress is the effect of an accumulation of capital goods exceeding the increase in population.

Rothbard examines conservatism by using as a fulcrum and analysis of the views of the leading conservative fusionist, Frank S. Meyer.

Pages 11–16 in the text. 

Pages 101–164 in the text.

Pages 239–241 in the text.

Pages 17–66 in the text.