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INTRODUCTION

Murray N. Rothbard, a scholar of extraordinary range, made major contributions to economics, history, political philosophy, and legal theory. He developed and extended the Austrian economics of Ludwig von Mises, in whose seminar he was a main participant for many years. He established himself as the principal Austrian theorist in the latter half of the twentieth century and applied Austrian analysis to topics such as the Great Depression of 1929 and the history of American banking.

THE EARLY YEARS—BECOMING A LIBERTARIAN

Murray Rothbard was born March 2, 1926, the son of David and Rae Rothbard. He was a brilliant student even as a young child; and his academic record at Columbia University, where he majored in mathematics and economics, was stellar.

MAN, ECONOMY, AND STATE:
ROTHBARD’S TREATISE ON ECONOMIC THEORY

POWER AND MARKET:
THE FINAL PART OF ROTHBARD’S TREATISE

MORE ADVANCES IN ECONOMIC THEORY:
THE LOGIC OF ACTION

Rothbard’s masterly work, Man, Economy, and State, was far from exhausting his contributions to economic theory. Rothbard’s main papers in this area are available in the posthumously published two-volume collection The Logic of Action.1

ROTHBARD ON MONEY:
THE VINDICATION OF GOLD

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AUSTRIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY

A ROTHBARDIAN VIEW OF AMERICAN HISTORY

THE UNKNOWN ROTHBARD:
UNPUBLISHED PAPERS