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Murray N. Rothbard

"Surely, any endorsement of a 'free' market in slaves indicates the inadequacy of utilitarian concepts of property and the need for a theory of justice."

Ralph Raico

Historical revisionism is the process of unmasking government excuses for the state's many crimes.

Benjamin Constant Ralph Raico

In ancient Athens, “the individual was much more subservient to the supremacy of the social body...than he is in any of the free states of Europe today.”

Murray N. Rothbard

In The Theory of Money and Credit, Mises provided the basics for the long-sought explanation for that mysterious and troubling economic phenomenon—the business cycle.

Jim Fedako

To swing a political debate in favor of the state, all it takes is a crisis, either real or imagined. The masses will then abandon whatever resistance they had to the state's latest interventions.

Dale Steinreich

The introduction of Obamacare was only the natural evolution of many decades of increasing state control of the healthcare industry.

Timothy D. Terrell

Tracy's deductive methodology, his liberal approach to governmental affairs, and his subjectivism qualify him as a proto-Austrian economist who enjoyed considerable influence not only in France but also around the world.

Jörg Guido Hülsmann

Raico stresses that there was another tradition within classical-liberal thought, one that recognized the interdependence between religion and liberty.

Robert P. Murphy

Hayek’s last proposal for monetary reform calls for privately issued, competing fiat currencies. It's debatable whether or not this is a good idea.

Jeff Riggenbach

Sumner is wrongly accused of being a "social Darwinist." Indeed, there is considerable evidence that the entire concept of "social Darwinism" as we know it today was virtually invented decades after Sumner's death.