While his claim of ideological steadfastness on his “basic political views” may have been correct, Rothbard did change his mind on questions of strategy and alliance, most significantly on the question of “McCarthyism” and the broader anti-Communist movement of the American Right, which he eventually rejected in favor of a more nuanced (and
According to the Mises.org Freedom Calendar , Marcus Tullius Cicero was born 2,115 years ago yesterday. (According to Wikipedia , it was 2,114 years ago.) Gary Galles wrote, According to Anthony Everitt, he was “an unknowing architect of constitutions that still govern our lives.” John Adams said of him, “All ages of the world have not produced a
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I came across this rave review in a letter dated July 18, 1959 from Murray Rothbard to the Volker Fund: In a forthcoming review of Henry Hazlitt’s The Failure of the ‘New Economics’ in National Review , I write that this is the best book on economics to be published since Mises’s Human Action , ten years ago. I do not think this an exaggeration.
Murray Rothbard addresses all the critical questions. Do libertarians believe that individuals are isolated, acting without influence? Are we libertines? Naive rationalists? Utopians? Do we promote selfishness? Before judging and evaluating libertarianism, it is vitally important to find out precisely what that doctrine is, and, more particularly,
While Rothbard gave an enthusiastically positive review to Henry Hazlitt’s The Failure of the “New Economics,” he was considerably less impressed with Benjamin Anderson’s The Value of Money : Date: January 20, 1960 From: Murray N. Rothbard To: Dr. Ivan R. Bierly, William Volker Fund Dear Ivan: While there are many interesting points and facets in
If government wishes to alleviate, rather than aggravate, a depression, wrote Murray Rothbard, its only valid course is laissez-faire -- to leave the economy alone. Currently fashionable economic thought considers such a dictum hopelessly outdated, yet it is the policy dictated both by sound theory and by historical precedent. But in 1929, the
[This article by Murray N. Rothbard follows “The Road to Civil War,” and is excerpted from the same unpublished report to the Volker Fund, 1961.] The Civil War was one of the most momentous events in American history, not only for its inherent drama and destruction, but because of the fateful consequences for America that flowed from it. We have
If you can’t yet find all of Murray Rothbard’s writing on Mises.org, the gap is small and closing. For those of us who discovered Rothbard through his books, it is especially fun to see the seeds of certain chapters sewn a decade or two earlier in letters to the Volker Fund, letters to and short articles for The Freeman , or as brief editorials in
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