When he died on January 7 [1995] in New York, the city where he was born in 1926 and spent most of his life, Murray N. Rothbard was the foremost libertarian thinker and activist of his age. With his passing, the world of unfettered scholarship has suffered a terrible loss. “As a libertarian figure,” . . . → Read More: Mark Weber on Murray N. Rothbard
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Biographical outlines of the life and work of Murray N. Rothbard and F.A. Hayek – listing their major achievements and their accomplishments, awards and honors – are easily available. Rather, I thought I would recount a few of the many fond memories I have of these two men, which might give you a small . . . → Read More: Ronald Hamowy on Murray N. Rothbard My topic this evening is called “Murray Rothbard: Go and Do Thou Likewise.” If you don’t mind, I am going to do what men of my age do from time to time, and that is tell you war stories – usually insufferably boring for younger people, but occasionally enlightening if you find that perhaps . . . → Read More: Gary North on Murray N. Rothbard I am often asked what inspired me to help launch Antiwar.com, turn it into the focal point of anti-war activities on the Internet, and write literally hundreds of columns in a little over a year. I can only point to the picture hanging over my desk: a portrait of a man sitting at a . . . → Read More: Justin Raimondo on Murray N. Rothbard Let me start by saying what this article is not. It is not going to be a place to debate Murray Rothbard’s anarchism. Or his stance on foreign policy. Or his various, changing stances on libertarian strategy. (In fact, all of these stances put together constitute a very small fraction of the totality of . . . → Read More: Chris Matthew Sciabarra on Murray N. Rothbard I took my first steps down the road to libertarianism during my junior year in high school (1962–1963), when, within about one month’s time, I read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and subscribed to The Freeman – the latter in hopes of reading more by and about the 19th Century French journalist Frederic Bastiat, whose . . . → Read More: Jeff Riggenbach on Murray N. Rothbard I vividly recall the event that set me on a long and winding road to libertarianism and Austrian economics. I was twelve years old and my parents, who were both first generation Italian-Americans, were hosting some of my mother’s relatives, including a distant male cousin who had traveled from Italy to visit relatives residing . . . → Read More: Joseph Salerno on Murray N. Rothbard In the late 1960s, my interests were far removed from Austrian economics—and from any other brand of economics, for that matter. I hadn’t yet heard of Murray Rothbard and thus couldn’t even have imagined that I would be catapulted by him into the midst of what would later be termed the “Austrian Revival.” My . . . → Read More: Roger Garrison on Murray N. Rothbard Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) – the greatest libertarian theorist of the 20th century – expressed what he considered to be the central political issue confronting mankind. He wrote, “My own basic perspective on the history of man…is to place central importance on the great conflict which is eternally waged between Liberty and Power.”1 Liberty . . . → Read More: Wendy McElroy on Murray N. Rothbard When Murray N. Rothbard (born 1926) died on January 7, 1995, ten years ago this day, he merited a headlined obituary in the New York Times, and many other tributes in that first sad and shocking week. Later a book appeared, and also special issues of journals and tributes of every sort. His memorial . . . → Read More: Jeffrey Tucker on Murray N. Rothbard Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was just one man with a typewriter, but he inspired a world-wide renewal in the scholarship of liberty. During 45 years of research and writing, in 25 books and thousands of articles, he battled every destructive trend in this century — socialism, statism, relativism, and scientism — and awakened a . . . → Read More: Lew Rockwell on Murray N. Rothbard
MURRAY N. ROTHBARD (1926–1995) has come to occupy a position of unique influence within the intellectual tradition Austrian economics for a combination of three central reasons. First, Rothbard is the latest representative of the mainstream within Austrian Economics.[1] As in other intellectual traditions, various interconnected branches can be identified within the Austrian School . . . → Read More: Hans Hoppe on Murray N. Rothbard It is time to reminisce. It is now just a little over 5 years since Murray Newton Rothbard died. He passed away on Saturday, the 7th of January, 1995. Perhaps we can all take comfort from the fact that Murray is up there, somewhere, looking down upon us, cheering us on, in our efforts . . . → Read More: Walter Block on Murray N. Rothbard 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 . . . → Read More: David Gordon on Murray N. Rothbard Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was America’s greatest radical libertarian author — writing authoritatively about ethics, philosophy, economics, American history, and the history of ideas. He presented the most fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of government, and he refined thinking about the self-ownership and non-coercion principles. Rothbard’s writings have been translated into Chinese, Czech, French, . . . → Read More: Advocates for Self-government on Murray N. Rothbard Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist of the Austrian School who helped define modern libertarianism and founded a form of free-market anarchism he termed “anarcho-capitalism“. Rothbard took the Austrian School’s emphasis on spontaneous order and condemnation of central planning to an individualist anarchist conclusion. Read more . . . → Read More: Wikipedia on Murray N. Rothbard “The conditions are therefore ripe, now and in the future in the United States, for the triumph of liberty. All that is needed is a growing and vibrant libertarian movement to explain this systemic crisis and to point out the libertarian path out of our government-created morass.” – For a New Liberty (1978) “The libertarian creed…offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians are squarely in the great classical liberal tradition that built the United States and bestowed on us the American heritage of individual liberty, a peaceful foreign policy, minimal government, and a free-market . . . → Read More: The Libertarian Creed (For a New Liberty) Murray Rothbard (1926-1995) was the greatest radical libertarian author, writing authoritatively about ethics, philosophy, economics, American history and the history of ideas. He presented the most fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of government, and he refined thinking about the self-ownership and non-coercion principles. Rothbard’s writings have been translated into Chinese, Czech, French, German, Italian, . . . → Read More: Laissez Faire Books on Murray N. Rothbard The seventh lecture by Murray Rothbard in a seven-part series on economics.
The sixth lecture by Murray Rothbard in a seven-part series on economics. The fourth lecture by Murray Rothbard in a seven-part series on economics.
The third lecture by Murray Rothbard in a seven-part series on economics. The second lecture by Murray Rothbard in a seven-part series on economics. The first lecture by Rothbard in a seven-part series on economics. One of the persistent Clintonian themes of the 1992 campaign still endures: if “it’s the economy, stupid,” then why hasn’t President Clinton received the credit among the public for our glorious economic recovery? Hence the Clintonian conclusion that the resounding Democratic defeat in November, 1994, was due to their failure to “get the message . . . → Read More: Is it the “Economy, Stupid”? American political life has experienced a veritable transformation. As usually happens when we are in the midst of a radical social change, we are barely aware that anything is happening, much less its full scope and dimension. In the words of Bob Dylan taunting the hated bourgeoisie in the 1960s: “You don’t know what’s . . . → Read More: A New Strategy for Liberty Most people exhibit a healthy lack of interest in the United Nations and its endless round of activities and conferences, considering them as boring busywork to sustain increasing hordes of tax-exempt bureaucrats, consultants, and pundits. All that is true. But there is danger in underestimating the malice of UN activities. For underlying all the . . . → Read More: Population “Control” It’s 1993, and this means that the quadrennial political extravaganza has hit New York City. New York’s mayor, other high elected city officials, and the city council, are all up for election this year. New York is of course a famously left-wing city, and has therefore, sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, been going down the . . . → Read More: Ethnic Politics in New York It’s 1993, and this means that the quadrennial political extravaganza has hit New York City. New York’s mayor, other high elected city officials, and the city council, are all up for election this year. New York is of course a famously left-wing city, and has therefore, sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, been going down the . . . → Read More: New York Politics ’93 Faithful readers of mine are in for a severe shock. As they well know, I am notoriously hostile to films that are (a) slow, (b) dark and murky, (c) with long close-ups of suffering actors’ faces substituting for dialogue, and (d) in a foreign language. Indeed these four elements almost always go together. Recently, . . . → Read More: A French Masterpiece! How is it that I, a pro-choice libertarian, stood up and cheered when the Reverend Falwell announced, after the election, that he might revive the Moral Majority; and was repelled when Cal Thomas, former vice-president of that organization, from his lofty post as one of the neocons’ favorite Christian columnists, urged Falwell not to . . . → Read More: The Religious Right: Toward A Coalition The media call this a “watershed” election, the election of “change,” and it is, although not quite in the way they are celebrating. It was an election driven by the Respectable Media which, over a year ago, anointed Clinton as our savior and managed to engineer his election. The media’s final burst of “unbias” . . . → Read More: The ‘Watershed’ Election Depending on your temperament, a presidential election year is a time for either depression or amusement. One befuddling aspect of campaign time is the way the Respectable Media redefine our language. Orwell wrote a half-century ago that he who controls the language wields the power, and the media have certainly shown that they have learned . . . → Read More: Discussing the “Issues” It should have been the ides of March, instead of late July. For surely it was Et tu, Brute? time in the nation’s capitol. As George Bush plummeted in the polls, all the nation’s Official Conservative leaders, including of course the neocons, took turns, one by one, with great delight, in plunging the knife into the . . . → Read More: Gang-Stabbing the President: What, Who, and Why As often happens, our current quandary was put best by my valued lifelong buddy and libertarian colleague, Professor Ralph Raico. Ralph was an ardent Buchananite, but as Pat faded in the primaries, and the horrible nomination of Slick Willie loomed, Ralph began to admonish me, in his hilarious mocking half-serious tone: “Remember Murray, we . . . → Read More: Working Our Way Back to the President What I call the Old Right is suddenly back! The terms old and new inevitably get confusing, with a new “new” every few years, so let’s call it the “Original” Right, the right wing as it existed from 1933 to approximately 1955. This Old Right was formed in reaction against the New Deal, and . . . → Read More: A Strategy for the Right Alan Greenspan has received his foreordained reappointment as chairman of the Fed, to the smug satisfaction and contentment of the entire financial Establishment. For them, Greenspan’s still in his heaven, and all’s right with the world. No one seems to wonder at the mysterious process by which each succeeding Fed chairman instantly becomes universally . . . → Read More: The Mysterious Fed Now that George Bush has ended all problems in the Middle East by exterminating several hundred thousand Iraqis, he has moved to fulfill his campaign threat to become our “Education President.” His first step was to fire bumbling education bureaucrat Lauro Cavazos as Education Secretary, and to replace him with the beloved Governor Lamar . . . → Read More: Education: Rethinking ‘Choice’ I have it on good authority that Barbara Branden is spending a good portion of her time lately brooding about the Arising menace of anti-Semitism.” Poor Barbara; like all Randians, she is perpetually out of sync. There is indeed a menace in this area, Barbara, but it is precisely the opposite: the cruel despotism . . . → Read More: Pat Buchanan and the Menace of Anti-Anti-Semitism The personal is the political” in today’s common leftist chant. It is also a formula for totalitarianism, for regimenting every aspect of our daily life. Relations with friends and spouses, whether or not you open a door for a female or use a deodorant, every twist and turn of life is scrutinized to root . . . → Read More: Sports, Politics, and the Constitution Riots in the streets; protest against a hated government; cops arresting protesters. A familiar story these days. But suddenly we find that the protests are directed, not against a hated Communist tyranny in Eastern Europe, but against Mrs. Thatcher’s regime in Britain, a supposed paragon of liberty and the free market. What’s going on . . . → Read More: Mrs. Thatcher’s Poll Tax We are all too familiar with the phenomenon of the “spin doctors,” those political agents who rush to provide the media with the proper “spin” after each campaign poll, speech, or debate. What we sometimes fail to realize is that the Establishment has its spin doctors in the economic realm as well. For every . . . → Read More: Inflation and the Spin Doctors We are all too familiar with the phenomenon of the “spin doctors,” those political agents who rush to provide the media with the proper “spin” after each campaign poll, speech, or debate. What we sometimes fail to realize is that the Establishment has its spin doctors in the economic realm as well. For every . . . → Read More: The Social Security Swindle This is the famous speech by Murray Rothbard given in the days following the collapse of the Soviet empire.
One strong recent trend among economists, businessmen, and politicians, has been to lament the amount of savings and investment in the United States as being far too low. It is pointed out that the American percentage of savings to national income is far lower than among the West Germans, or among our feared competitors, . . . → Read More: Are Savings Too Low? As improbable as this may seem now, I was at one time in college a statistics major. After taking all the undergraduate courses in statistics, I enrolled in a graduate course in mathematical statistics at Columbia with the eminent Harold Hotelling, one of the founders of modern mathematical economics. After listening to several lectures . . . → Read More: Statistics: Destroyed from Within? One of the ironic but unfortunately enduring legacies of eight years of Reaganism has been the resurrection of Keynesianism. From the late 1930s until the early 1970s, Keynesianism rode high in the economics profession and in the corridors of power in Washington, promising that, so long as Keynesian economists continued at the helm, the . . . → Read More: The Death of Reaganomics (Keynesian Redux) Murray Rothbard at the Texas State Libertarian Conference. |
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