Murray Rothbard argues against this theory, pointing out that to more closely approximate such results, it would be necessary to disenfranchise the elderly, women, and those who are otherwise at a physical disadvantage in combat, and to give trained soldiers multiple votes.

Power and Market: Government and the Economy is a 1970 book by Murray Rothbard in which he analyzes the negative effects of the various kinds of government intervention, and denies that the State is either necessary or useful.

Rothbard explains the Austrian theory of the business cycle, which holds that government manipulation of the money supply sets the stage for the familiar " boom-bust " phases of the modern market.

In 1969 and 1970, Hess joined with others, including Murray Rothbard, Robert LeFevre, Dana Rohrabacher, Samuel Edward Konkin III, and former Students for a Democratic Society leader Carl Oglesby to speak at two " left-right " conferences which brought together activists from both the Old Right and the New Left in what was emerging as a nascent libertarian movement .< ref >

Rothbard criticized imperialism and the rise of the American empire which needed war to sustain itself and to expand its global control.

" With Eric Garris, he organized the " Radical Caucus ", which brought them to the attention of the libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard.

In 1965, with Murray Rothbard and George Resch, he created Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought, a publication which emphasized

Rothbard, in fact, argued that Meyer's fusionism was actually the natural law-natural rights branch of libertarian thought which Rothbard himself and other true libertarians followed.

In 1977, with the funding of Charles Koch and the assistance of Murray Rothbard, Crane established the Cato Institute, which would grow into the best-known libertarian think-tank in the world.

Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays, by Murray Rothbard, takes its title from its lead essay, which argues that egalitarian theory always results in a politics of statist control because it is founded on revolt against the ontological structure of reality itself.

Power and Market: Government and the Economy is another work by Rothbard in which he analyzes the negative effects of the various kinds of government intervention, and denies that government is either useful or necessary.

Individualist Anarchist Laurance Labadie argued that Rothbard " upholds presumably in his courts the very economic evils which are at bottom the very reason for human contention and conflict.

Murray Rothbard ( March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995 ) was an American economist and political philosopher who is best known for theorizing anarcho-capitalism, which opposes the state and supports a free market.

Working with other radicals like Ronald Radosh and Karl Hess, Rothbard argued that the consensus view of American economic history, according to which a beneficent government has used its power to counter corporate predation, is fundamentally flawed.

Libertarian philosopher and economist Murray Rothbard argues that homesteading includes all the rights needed to engage in the homesteading action, including nuisance and pollution rights.

Rothbard held that knowledge of history was important because “ 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.

Rothbard acknowledges that this would be a universal ethic, but, he argues, it is " Utopian and impossible for everyone to keep continual tabs on everyone else, and thereby to exercise his equal share of partial ownership over every other man.

Murray Rothbard argues for allowing contractually arising infinite copyright terms and against the need for any government role in protecting intellectual property.

Although his self-identification as a socialist and sympathy for the labor movement led to hostility from some early anarcho-capitalists such as Robert LeFevre, others, such as Murray Rothbard, embraced his critique of the state and claimed that he defined his " socialism " not in terms of opposition to a free market or private property, but in opposition to government privileges for business.

Murray Rothbard argues, "' national defense ' is surely not an absolute good with only one unit of supply.

* Rothbard, Murray N. ( 1982 ), " F. A. Hayek and the Concept of Coercion ", in The Ethics of Liberty, Humanities Press

Murray Rothbard said that the difference between free-market capitalism and " state capitalism " is the difference between " peaceful, voluntary exchange " and a collusive partnership between business and government that uses coercion to subvert the free market.

( Rothbard is credited with coining the term " Anarcho-capitalism ").

Rothbard bases his philosophy on natural law grounds and also provides economic explanations of why he thinks anarcho-capitalism is preferable on pragmatic grounds as well.

In the preface to the 1977 English translation Murray Rothbard called " The Production of Security " the " first presentation anywhere in human history of what is now called anarcho-capitalism " though admitting that " Molinari did not use the terminology, and probably would have balked at the name.

Some believe that the modern movement of anarcho-capitalism is the result of simply removing the labor theory of value from ideas of the 19th century American individualist anarchists: " Their successors today, such as Murray Rothbard, having abandoned the labor theory of value, describe themselves as anarcho-capitalists.

In 1971, Austrian School libertarian economist Murray Rothbard criticized Friedman's efforts to make the government more efficient as detrimental to individual liberty, concluding "... as we examine Milton Friedman ’ s credentials to be the leader of free-market economics, we arrive at the chilling conclusion that it is difficult to consider him a free-market economist at all.

In a 1995 interview in Reason magazine he said the " difference between me and people like Murray Rothbard is that, though I want to know what my ideal is, I think I also have to be willing to discuss changes that are less than ideal so long as they point me in that direction.

Libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard argues that " the very existence of a natural law discoverable by reason is a potentially powerful threat to the status quo and a standing reproach to the reign of blindly traditional custom or the arbitrary will of the State apparatus.

Murray Rothbard argues that the amount of gold available is not a bar to a gold standard since the free market will determine the purchasing power of gold money based on its supply.

America's Great Depression is a 1963 treatise on the 1930s Great Depression and its root causes, written by Austrian School economist and author Murray Rothbard.

Philosopher Murray Rothbard wrote that " no being has a right to live, unbidden, as a parasite within or upon some person's body " and that therefore the woman is entitled to eject the fetus from her body at any time.

I cannot remember the day that I finally came around to the position that the state is unnecessary and destructive by its nature – that it cannot improve on, and indeed only destroys, the social and economic system that grows out of property rights, exchange, and natural social authority – but I do know that it was Rothbard who finally convinced me to take this last step.

Libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard argued that the film was " not so much pro-war as it is anti-State.

Economist Murray Rothbard, noted for his espousal of anarcho-capitalism, argues that the state itself is a coercive monopoly as it uses " violence " to establish " a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint and the power to create money, unused land (' the public domain '), streets and highways, rivers and coastal waters, and the means of delivering mail.

Austrian economists, such as Murray N. Rothbard and Jörg Guido Hülsmann generally support full-reserve banking and hold the view that fractional-reserve banking is " fraudulent and inflationary ".

Paleolibertarianism is a school of thought within American libertarianism associated with the late economist Murray Rothbard, and the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

It is ' paleo ' because of its genesis in the work of Murray N. Rothbard and his predecessors, including Ludwig von Mises, Albert Jay Nock, Garet Garrett, and the entire interwar Old Right that opposed the New Deal and favored the Old Republic of property rights, freedom of association, and radical political decentralization.

Murray Rothbard ( 1926 – 95 ), who asserted that " capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.

The Party is guided by adherence to the philosophical ideas of Austrian Economics and influenced by authors and thinkers like Jan Narveson and Murray Rothbard.

* True Money Supply, an index created by economist Murray Rothbard that represents the amount of money available for immediate use in the economy