UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS ON HAYEK, MISES, STRAUSS, AND POLANYI

EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ROBERTA A. MODUGNO

© 2009 by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and published under the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0.

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ROBERTA MODUGNO HAS IN HER scholarly career made a habit of “getting there first.” She wrote the first book in any language on the thought of Murray Rothbard, Murray N. Rothbard e l’anarco-capitalismo americano, published by Rubbettino in 1998, and she also is the author of the first Italian book on Mary Wollstonecraft’s political thought. In the present book, she has once more led the way.

ROTHBARD’S UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS

IN 1952, MURRAY ROTHBARD received a grant from the William Volker Fund to write a book on Austrian economics, based on the ideas of Ludwig von Mises, to be used as a textbook for university economics courses. That book became Man, Economy, and State, published some ten years later. It contained an in-depth investigation of Austrian economics and its policy implications, and it went far beyond the standard university textbook.

November 16, 1948

Dr. F.A. Harper

Foundation for Economic Education

Dear Dr. Harper:

I apologize for the delay in commenting on Dr. Cutten’s speech expounding rugged individualism.1 As a matter of fact, I was just going to write you a letter on election night, and tuned in the radio expecting to hear the returns confirming the expected results in a “dull” election. I need not explain how my attention was diverted.

January 21, 1958

To the Volker Fund

June 11, 1960

Mr. Kenneth S. Templeton

William Volker Fund

Dear Ken: