“turn over ownership to the homesteading workers in the particular plants.”
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Murray Rothbard
Murray Newton Rothbard was an American economist of the Austrian School, economic historian, political theorist, and activist. Rothbard was a central figure in the 20th-century American libertarian movement, particularly its right-wing strands, and was a founder and leading theoretician of anarcho-capitalism. He wrote over twenty books on political theory, history, economics, and other subjects.
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Born 2 March 1926 · Died 7 January 1995 · Q297079
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Our entry into World War II was the crucial act in foisting a permanent militarization upon the economy and society, in bringing to the country a permanent garrison state, an overweening military–industrial complex, a permanent system of conscription. It was the crucial act in creating a mixed economy run by Big Government, a system of state monopoly capitalism run by the central government in collaboration with Big Business and Big Unionism.
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2026· 12 entries
“Our entry into World War II was the crucial act in foisting a permanent militarization upon the economy and society, in bringing to the country a permanent garrison state, an overweening military–industrial complex, a permanent system of conscription. It was the crucial act in creating a mixed economy run by Big Government, a system of state monopoly capitalism run by the central government in collaboration with Big Business and Big Unionism.”
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“At the heart of the egalitarian left is the pathological belief that there is no structure of reality; that all the world is a tabula rasa that can be changed at any moment in any desired direction by the mere exercise of human will.”
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“s academic prestige and political influence. Noting that Rothbard has”
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“dismal monetary and banking situation”
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“managed to make a living for 40 years without having to get up before noon. This was important to him.”
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“brought an excitement, a verve, a sense of dynamics and of open possibilities to what had threatened to be a dreary race”
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“debasing and egalitarian public school system”
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“monopoly system of the corporate state”
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publichealthpolicyjournal.com: Rothbard at 100: Five Economic Insights That Still Matter
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Diario Expreso: Sociedad de la Libertad prepara homenaje por los 100 años del economista, filósofo e historiador Murray Rothbard
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Yahoo: 100 Years of Murray Rothbard
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2022· 1 entry
Reason: Have 'Delusion and Greed'—and Murray Rothbard—Destroyed Libertarianism?
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2013· 2 entries
Reason: 45 Years, 45 Days: Murray Rothbard on Alan Greenspan
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American Enterprise Institute: Quotation of the Day: Murray Rothbard on ‘economic Ignorance’
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2007· 1 entry
It appears in print virtually unchanged from the manuscript untouched since the 1970s
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1995· 6 entries
Died 1995-01-07.
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“All interstate wars intensify aggression – maximize it … some wars are even more unjust than others. In other words, all government wars are unjust, although some governments have less unjust claims…”
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“En la sociedad libertaria, las calles serían de titularidad privada, el conflicto se resolvería sin violación alguna de los derechos de propiedad de nadie. Los propietarios de las calles decidirían quiénes pueden acceder a ellas y qué indeseables deberían quedar excluidos si los dueños así lo quieren.”
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“The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.”
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“Si un padre puede tener la propiedad de su hijo (dentro siempre del marco de no agresión y de libertad de abandono del hogar), puede transferirla a terceros. Puede dar al niño en adopción, o puede vender sus derechos sobre él en virtud de un contrato voluntario. En suma, tenemos que enfrentarnos al hecho de que en una sociedad absolutamente libre puede haber un floreciente mercado libre de niños.”
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“La madre es la dueña natural y legítima dueña del bebé, y cualquier intento de quitarle el bebé por la fuerza es una invasión a su derecho de propiedad.”
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1993· 1 entry
Rothbard rejected the vision of a "separate black nation", asking, "Does anyone really believe that
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1992· 1 entry
Writing that "with Pat Buchanan as our leader, we shall break the clock of social democracy"
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1990· 1 entry
“Interview with Murray N. Rothbard : The Austrian Economics Newsletter”
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1989· 1 entry
Rothbard left the Libertarian Party and began building bridges to the post-Cold War anti-interventionist right, calling himself a paleolibertarian, a conservative reaction against the cultural liberalism of mainstream li
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1988· 1 entry
Boettke noted that Rothbard "vehemently attacked all of the books of the younger Austrians"
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1982· 4 entries
“to let these refugees return and reclaim the property taken from them,”
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Joined Lew Rockwell and Burton Blumert to establish the Mises Institute in Alabama
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Rothbard called Reagan's claims of spending cuts a "fraud" and a "hoax" and accused Reaganites of doctoring the economic statistics to give a false impression that their policies successfully reduced inflation and unempl
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Following his split with the Cato Institute, Rothbard co-founded the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, (with Lew Rockwell and Burton Blumert) and was vice president of academic affairs until 1995
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1977· 1 entry
(whose funding by Charles Koch was a major infusion of money for libertarianism) and "came up with the idea of naming this libertarian think tank after Cato's Letters, a powerful series of British newspaper essays by Joh
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1976· 1 entry
And the Journal of Libertarian Studies in 1977
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1971· 2 entries
(though "anarchocapitalism [sic]" had been attested earliest in Karl Hess's 1969 essay The Death of Politics)
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Began to use "anarcho-capitalist" to describe his political ideology
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1968· 1 entry
Including posthumously in the Cato Institute's journal
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1967· 1 entry
“an heroic figure for our time”
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1966· 1 entry
And after 1986 in an endowed position at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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1962· 1 entry
Leading Rothbard to seek employment at various New York academic institutions
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1958· 1 entry
After the publication of Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged, Rothbard wrote her a "fan letter", calling the book "an infinite treasure house" and "not merely the greatest novel ever written, [but] one of the very greatest books
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1956· 2 entries
Rothbard deprecated the views of Austrian economist Fritz Machlup, stating that Machlup was no praxeologist and calling him instead a "positivist" who failed to represent the views of Ludwig von Mises
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Studied at Columbia University, Doctor of Philosophy (1956).
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1954· 1 entry
Rothbard, along with several other attendees of Mises's seminar, joined the circle of novelist Ayn Rand, the founder of Objectivism
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1953· 1 entry
Rothbard married JoAnn Beatrice Schumacher (1928–1999), whom he called Joey, in New York City
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1952· 1 entry
His father was trapped during a labor strike at the Tide Water Oil Refinery in New Jersey which he managed, confirming their dislike of organized labor
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1948· 1 entry
On behalf of the segregationist South Carolinian Strom Thurmond's presidential campaign
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1942· 1 entry
Studied at Columbia University, Bachelor of Arts (1942).
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1926· 2 entries
Born 1926-03-02.
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“s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. In his essay,”
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