[Editor’s Note: Is the Iraq War over oil? Chuck Hagel, who was just nominated for Secretary of Defense, thinks so; or at least he did in 2007. And, for neocon Bill Kristol, that’s a big problem . Michael Moore responded to Kristol , quoting several conservative pundits who basically agreed with Hagel. One of the pundits quoted was Ann Coulter, who
[”Revolution in Minnesota,” The Libertarian Forum , August 1, 1969.] The idea prevails that to favor gold or silver money is to be a mossback reactionary; nothing could be further from the truth. For gold (as well as silver) is the People’s Money; it is a valuable commodity that has developed, on the free market, as the monetary means of
[This article is featured in chapter 62 of Making Economic Sense by Murray Rothbard and originally appeared in the June, 1990 edition of The Free Market ] 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
[This originally appeared as “The Editor Rebuts,” in the February 1973 edition of The Libertarian Forum .] First, I should like to make it clear, to Dr. Hospers and to his many admirers, that I have nothing but the greatest esteem for him, both as a friend and as the outstanding theorist and spokesman for the “limited archy” wing of the
[Rothbard’s review of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eight-Four (Harcourt, 1949) appeared in Analysis , September 1949, p. 4] In recent years, many writers have given us their vision of the coming collectivist future. At the turn of the century, neither Edward Bellamy nor H. G. Wells suspected that the collectivist societies of their dreams were so
Editor’s Note: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was approved by Congress 20 years ago this month. Rothbard’s essay on NAFTA, reprinted below, is available in the collection Making Economic Sense . For some people, it seems, all you have to do to convince them of the free enterprise nature of something is to label it “market,” and so
[This article appeared in The Review of Austrian Economics in 1992.] Introduction It is generally acknowledged that bureaucrats are obstructing the process, but confusion abounds among free-market proponents themselves. Matters are scarcely helped by the fact that Western economists, to whom the former Eastern bloc is looking for wisdom, have
[This essay is chapter 15 of the book Egalitarianism As a Revolt Against Nature .] Why be libertarian, anyway? By this we mean, what’s the point of the whole thing? Why engage in a deep and lifelong commitment to the principle and the goal of individual liberty? For such a commitment, in our largely unfree world, means inevitably a radical
[ Conceived in Liberty (1975)] Hasta la década de 1670, la mayoría del trabajo forzado es Virginia era trabajo no abonado (en buena parte blancos, pero algunos negros); la esclavitud negra era mínima. En 1683 había 12.000 trabajadores no abonados en Virginia y solo 3.000 esclavos de una población total de 44.000 personas. Los amos por lo general
Nota del editor: el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN) fue aprobado por el Congreso hace 20 años este mes. El ensayo de Rothbard sobre el TLCAN, reproducido a continuación, está disponible en la colección Making Economic Sense . Parece que, para algunos, todo lo que hay que hacer para convencerles de la naturaleza de la libre
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