Philosophy and Methodology

Here is Murray N. Rothbard's 1968 demolition of trends in conservative thought, as printed in Ramparts magazine.

The idea of private property not only agrees with our moral intuitions—it is the sole just solution to the problem of social order.

Many of the governmental edicts are pseudo laws, rules that are annoying mainly because government has accrued to itself the sole, monopolistic authority to impose them on us.

Sometimes people—even other economists—are incredulous that the Austrians deny the possibility of interpersonal utility comparisons.

Sometimes people—even other economists—are incredulous that the Austrians deny the possibility of interpersonal utility comparisons.

An advisor of Richard Nixon and a friend of most Administration economists, Friedman has, in fact, served the regime as a sort of leading unofficial apologist for Nixonite policy.

The misuse of science occurs when the scientist—who is competent in a special field—seeks to use his status to influence fields where he is not competent.

Berlin's fundamental flaw was his failure to define negative liberty as the absence of physical interference with an individual's person and property.

Man discovered the value of free markets, free competition, and free enterprise. But then the governments man created to "protect" these rights destroyed them instead. 

For a while the postwar ideological climate seemed to be the same as during the war: internationalism, statism, adulation of economic planning and the centralized state, were rampant everywhere.