Literature Library

The most complete online offering of the literature of the Austrian School and libertarian ideas, including books, journal articles, and other writings, sorted by author or any method you choose.

We recommend Adobe Reader for PDF files and Adobe Digital Editions for desktop reading of ePub (ebook) files.

For an ePub reader, we recommend the iBook app, O'Reilly's Bookworm, or the Stanza Catalog.

Has the Mises.org Literature section changed your life? We want to hear from you!

author: Murray-N-Rothbard: 119 records

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.

Sort by Title

69. 'The Shot Heard Round the World': The Final Conflict Begins

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 10/19/2009

...
A Note on Burke's Vindication of the Natural Society

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/10/2010

Jeff Tucker Burke.PDF Acrobat PDFWriter 4.05 for Windows NT Capitalism...
A New History of Leviathan

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 8/17/2007

Edit by Ronald Radosh and Murray N. Rothbard A New History of Leviathan...
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...
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...
"Aurophobia: or, Free Banking on What Standard?"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

Unknown PrecisionScan Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
Austrian Definitions of the Supply of Money

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/10/2010

Jeff Tucker AustrianMoneySupply.PDF Acrobat PDFWriter 4.05 for Windows NT...
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...
Austrian Theory of Money, The

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/10/2010

Jeff Tucker MONEY.PDF Acrobat PDFWriter 4.05 for Windows NT...
"Breaking Out of the Walrasian Box: The Cases of Schumpeter and Hansen"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

Murray N. Rothbard Breaking Out of the Walrasian Box: The Cases of Schumpeter and Hansen Acrobat 3.0 Import Plug-in...
"Bureaucracy and the Civil Service in the United States"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

Scott Kjar Rothbard.WORD Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh Capitalism...
"Bureaucracy and the Civil Service in the United States"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

Scott Kjar Rothbard.WORD Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Power Macintosh deflation...
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...
Classical Economics: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/24/2010

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...
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...
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...
"Concepts of the Role of Intellectuals in Social Change Toward Laissez Faire"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

judy E:\OCCPAPER\HHHCov5.PDF Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Consumption Tax: A Critique, The"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

Unknown PrecisionScan Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
Defense of Extreme Apriorism, In

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/10/2010

Jeff Tucker EXTREME.PDF Acrobat PDFWriter 4.05 for Windows NT...
Defense of 'Extreme Apriorism, In

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/10/2010

Jeff Tucker EXTREME.PDF Acrobat PDFWriter 4.05 for Windows NT...
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...
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...
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...
Economics Depressions: Their Cause and Cure

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/18/2009

Ludwig von Mises Omnipotent Government...
"Editorial"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

William CochranCall61.qxd Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in deflation...
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...
"Egalitarianism and the Elites"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

Unknown PrecisionScan Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 6/1/2010

Rothbard vs. the Crazies All evidence points to the superiority of the libertarian ideal—private property, capitalism, international trade, laissez-faire—but something is keeping the world from embracing it. That something is wrong-headed ideolog...
"End of Socialism and the Calculation Debate Revisited, The"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

Israel M. Kirzner The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Austrians Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
Ethics and Capitalism, Part I, Catholicism

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/10/2010

Murray N. Rothbard Readings on Ethics and Capitalism, Part I, Catholicism Acrobat Distiller 6.0 (Windows)...
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...
"Foreign Policy of the Old Right, The"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

William CochranCall61.qxd Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in deflation...
Frank S. Meyer: The Fusionist as Libertarian Manqué

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/10/2010

Murray N. Rothbard Frank S. Meyer: The Fusionist as Libertarian Manqué Acrobat Distiller 6.0 (Windows)...
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]...
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...
"How and How Not to Desocialize"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

Israel M. Kirzner The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Austrians Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
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]...
"Intimidation by Rhetoric"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

Murray N. Rothbard The Hermeneutical Invasion of Philosophy and Economics Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Introduction to the French Edition of Ethics of Liberty"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

William CochranCall61.qxd Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in deflation...
"Karl Marx: Communist as Religious Eschatologist"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

Israel M. Kirzner The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Austrians Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
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....
"King on Punishment: A Comment"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

William CochranCall61.qxd Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in deflation...
"Laissez-Faire Radical: A Quest for the Historical Mises"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

judy E:\OCCPAPER\HHHCov5.PDF Acrobat 3.0 Import Plug-in...
Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

Murray N. Rothbard Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution...
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....
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...
"Ludwig von Mises and Natural LAw: A Comment on Professor Gonce"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

judy E:\OCCPAPER\HHHCov5.PDF Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Ludwig Von Mises and Natural Law: A Comment on Professor Gonce"

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/15/2007

William CochranCall61.qxd Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in deflation...
Ludwig von Mises and the Paradigm for Our Age

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 5/11/2010

Jeff Tucker paradigm1a.PDF Acrobat PDFWriter 4.05 for Windows NT...