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About Murray N. Rothbard

1926 - 1995

Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was dean of the Austrian School. He was an economist, economic historian, and libertarian political philosopher.

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Complete Libertarian Forum (1969-1984)

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/7/2013

It's finally here, the bound edition (two massive volumes, hardcover) of the Libertarian Forum that serious collectors and readers only dreamed about a few years ago. Those who were lucky enough to have the complete set held onto them for dear li...
What Has Government Done to Our Money?

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 4/16/2013

When this gem first appeared in 1963, it took the form of a small paperback designed for mass distribution. We've conjured up that spirit again with this special edition of Rothbard's primer on money and government. Innumerable economists,...
For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 12/4/2012

Latest edition includes an introduction by Lew Rockwell. In For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Rothbard proposes a once-and-for-all escape from the two major political parties, the ideologies they embrace, and their central plans for us...
Review of Austrian Economics, Full Collection

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 11/29/2012

Save $20.00 when you buy the complete 10 volume printed set! All 10 KINDLE files are in the store as well for only $30.00! RARE KINDLE FULL COLLECTION. Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream...
Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 10/5/2012

The appearance of the famous (and massive) volumes of Rothbard's History of Economic Thought in a new edition is cause for great celebration. They have been out of print for many years, and were previously only available at a price exceeding...
Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 9/24/2012

Rothbard Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 9

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/6/2012

RAE VOLUME 9 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
War Collectivism

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/24/2012

War Collectivism: Power, Business, and the Intellectual Class in World War I More than any other single period, World War I was the critical watershed for the American business system. It was a "war collectivism," a totally planned ec...
Conceived in Liberty

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/14/2012

The new single-volume edition of Conceived in Liberty is here! After so many years of having to juggle four volumes, the Mises Institute has finally put it altogether in a single, 1,616-page book. This makes it easier to read, and makes clearer just...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 10

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 10 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 8

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 8 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 7

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 7 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 6

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 6 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 5

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 5 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 4

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 4 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 3

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 3 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 2

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 2 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 1

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/9/2012

RAE VOLUME 1 Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with...
Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought (Complete, 1965-1968)

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 3/26/2012

The most influential and famous low-circulation, typewriter-typed scholarly journal of the 20th century....
Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/12/2012

Ridiculously low price! Murray N. Rothbard's great treatise Man, Economy, and State and its complementary text Power and Market, are here combined into a single edition as they were written to be. It provides a sweeping presentation of Austria...
Education: Free and Compulsory

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/10/2012

What is it about today's school system that so many find unsatisfactory? Why have so many generations of reformers failed to improve the educational system, and, indeed, caused it to degenerate further and further into an ever declining level...
America's Great Depression

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 12/14/2011

Applied Austrian economics doesn't get better than this. Murray N. Rothbard's America's Great Depression is a staple of modern economic literature and crucial for understanding a pivotal event in American and world history. The Mises In...
Power and Market: Government and the Economy

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 12/5/2011

What can government do to enhance social and economic well being? Nothing, says Murray N. Rothbard. Power and Market contains the proof. It will inoculate the reader against even the slightest temptation to invoke the state as a solution to any socia...
Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 11/3/2011

This fiery monograph shows a side of Murray Rothbard not seen in his theoretical treatise: his ability to employ "power elite" analysis to understand the relationship between money, power, and war. Rather than allow the left to dominate...
The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 9/30/2011

The panic of 1819 was America's first great economic crisis. And this is Murray Rothbard's masterful account, the first full scholarly book on the topic and still the most definitive. It was his dissertation, published in 1962 but nearly impo...
The Irrepressible Rothbard

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 9/26/2011

Summing up the work of libertarian economist and historian Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) and noting its stunning range, philosopher David Gordon once wondered "if there are really three, four, or five geniuses writing under his na...
The Origins of the Federal Reserve

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 9/6/2011

Where did this thing called the Fed come from? Murray Rothbard has the answer here -- in phenomenal detail that will make your head spin. In one extended essay, one that reads like a detective story, he has put together the most comprehensive and fas...
The Ethics of Liberty

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/29/2011

Murray Rothbard's greatest contribution to the politics of freedom is back in print. Following up on Mises's demonstration that a society without private property degenerates into economic chaos, Rothbard shows that every interference with pr...
Economic Controversies

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/12/2011

After Murray Rothbard finished his theoretical magnum opus - Man, Economy, and State - he turned his attention away from pure positive theory toward dealing with the opposition to Austrian theory. The result was a long series of fantastic scholarly a...
The Essential von Mises

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 7/26/2011

A year following the death of Ludwig von MIses, Murray Rothbard wrote the book designed to inspire a new generation to take up the Misesian cause in economic theory and political action. His task was to provide an overview of Mises's writings and...
Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 7/18/2011

Need a short monograph on Austrian business cycle theory? This is the one to get. Murray Rothbard was the master of reducing complicated theories to their very essence while retaining theoretical rigor, and this essay is a case in point. It was writ...
Making Economic Sense

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 7/15/2011

Do you ever watch the business news and think: what would Murray Rothbard say about this? He remained a news junky all his life, even while working on his grand scholarly treatises. He was no academic snob; he believed, like Mises, that economics was...
Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 7/14/2011

For many who have read this book-length essay, it marked a turning point in a new understanding. The mainstream will forever attempt to pigeonhole belief systems based on the left-right dichotomy. The right supposedly favors economic freedom plus...
Anatomy of the State

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 7/14/2011

Murray Rothbard was known as the state's greatest living enemy, and this is his most succinct and powerful statement on the topic, an exhibit A in how he came to wear that designation proudly. He explains what a state is and what it is not, acc...
The Production of Security

Gustave de Molinari Updated 6/27/2011

The introduction to this stunning work is by Murray Rothbard, who calls French radical Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) the great innovator in the market provision of security. Indeed, he might be regarded as the first proponent of what is called anar...
Keynes the Man

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 6/23/2011

Here is Rothbard's mini-biography of Lord Keynes, one that makes use of all modern research to reconstruct Keynes's life and works in a way that is absolutely devastating. We read about his schooling, his secret societies, his political assoc...
Keynes, the Man

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 4/30/2011

Rothbard's dissection of the hugely influential but unusually unprincipled economist....
War, Peace, and the State

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 4/8/2011

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The Betrayal of the American Right

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 3/23/2011

This remarkable piece of history will change the way you look at American politics. It shows that the corruption of American "conservatism" began long before George W. Bush ballooned the budget and asserted dictatorial rights over the count...
Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar, The

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 2/18/2011

Rothbard not only argues for the gold standard; he shows how it can be restored in a practical, step-by-step plan. No other system will stop the seemingly endless monetary inflation of the Federal Reserve system. He also makes his strongest case agai...
History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 10/25/2010

Hardcover Edition The master teacher of American economic history covers money and banking in the whole of American history, to show that the meltdown of our times is hardly the first. And guess what caused them in the past? Paper money, loose cre...
Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 10/25/2010

Strictly Confidential from Mises Media on Vimeo.The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard Mr. Libertarian, a great genius of twentieth century and one of the most innovative intellectuals in human history, still has more and more to say,...
The Political Thought of Étienne de la Boétie

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 9/13/2010

States are more vulnerable than people think. They can collapse in an instant—when consent is withdrawn. This is the thesis of this thrilling book. Murray Rothbard writes a classic introduction to one of the great political essays in the history...
Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 9/6/2010

The appearance of the famous (and massive) volumes of Rothbard's History of Economic Thought in a new edition is cause for great celebration. They have been out of print for many years, and were previously only available at a price exceeding...
Hayek and His Lamentable Contemporaries

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010

The final lecture in a series of six on the History of Economic Thought. [1:07:46]...
Mises and Austrian Economics

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010

The fifth in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [56:38]...
Menger and Böhm-Bawerk

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010

The fourth in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [1:11:37]...
The Pre-Austrians

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010

The third in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [1:11:55]...
Ideology and Theories of History

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010

The first in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [1:06:34]...
The Emergence of Communism

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/3/2010

The second in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [1:11:47]...