The late economist Murray Rothbard was a major influence on the Institute's activities and served as its academic vice president until his death in 1995.

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.

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.

Argumentation ethics builds on the concept of Discourse ethics developed by Jürgen Habermas ( Hoppe's PhD advisor ) and Karl-Otto Apel, further on misesian praxeology and the deontological ethics of economist Murray Rothbard.

Other Austrian School academics such as Murray Rothbard and Friedrich Hayek have also had a strong influence on the Institute's work.

Many voluntaryists base their thinking on the ideas of voluntaryist philosophers Murray Rothbard and Robert LeFevre.

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.

* Classical Economics, An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II, Chapter 1, Murray N. Rothbard

Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economic Principles, first published in 1962, is a book on economics by Murray Rothbard, and is one of the most important books in the Austrian School of economics ( others are Ludwig von Mises ' The Theory of Money and Credit and Human Action ).

Rothbard describes the contents in his preface on pages xciv-xcv.

In the 1960s, Rothbard began questioning the alliance between libertarians and conservatives, especially given the vast difference of opinion on such issues as the Vietnam War.

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, a libertarian but unlike Nozick an anarcho-capitalist, criticizes Anarchy, State, and Utopia in his essay " Robert Nozick and the Immaculate Conception of the State " on the basis that:

* Murray Rothbard, New Light on the Prehistory of the Austrian School Essay originally published in The Foundations of Modern Austrian Economics, edited by Edwin Dolan ( Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1976 ), pp. 52 – 74.

As Rothbard has said, " This semi-libertarian condition came to an end in 1663, when the English Crown included Albemarle in the mammoth Carolina land grant bestowed on a group of eight feudal proprietors.

His work has focused on topics including Objectivism, libertarianism ( particularly the work of Friedrich Hayek and Murray Rothbard ), and dialectics.

* Michael S. Rozeff: " Rothbard on fractional reserve banking-a critique.

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.

Man, Economy, and State is a book on economics by Rothbard, and is one of the most important books in the Austrian School of economics.

* Konkin on Libertarian Strategy, by Murray Rothbard

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

In " War Guilt in the Middle East " libertarian scholar Murray Rothbard details Israel's " aggression against Middle East Arabs ," confiscatory policies and its " refusal to let these refugees return and reclaim the property taken from them.

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.

Rothbard concluded that libertarianism had its roots in the political left, and therefore that libertarians of the Old Right would be better suited in alliance with the growing anti-authoritarianism of the New Left.

Many anarchists advocate the abolition of money, others call for its replacement with new currency systems, and others, such as Benjamin Tucker and Murray Rothbard, simply want the end of the government money monopoly and the repeal of legal tender laws, i. e. they want competition between private banks and currencies.

Rothbard strongly opposed communism in all its forms and other related ideologies that demand that wealth be distributed collectively instead of held individually.

The doyen of modern American market-oriented libertarianism, Austrian School economist Murray Rothbard, was initially an enthusiastic partisan of the Old Right, particularly because of its general opposition to war and imperialism.

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.

He remained a close associate to Rothbard until his death in January 1995.

Rockwell was closely associated with his teacher and colleague Murray Rothbard until Rothbard's death in 1995.

Rothbard left the masthead in 1990, following his break with the Libertarian Party and his public move towards paleolibertarianism ; Hess stayed with the magazine until his death.

* Economist and philosopher Murray Rothbard ( until the 1950s )

Notable staffers included a young Murray Rothbard who began working for the Volker Fund in 1951 and wrote book reviews for the Fund until 1962.

The magazine's list of editors at start-up included Murray Rothbard ; Karl Hess joined soon after.

Clark's running to the center marked the start of a split within the Libertarian Party between a moderate faction led by Ed Crane and a radical faction led by Rothbard that eventually came to a head in 1983, with the moderate faction walking out of the party convention after the nomination for the 1984 presidential race went to David Bergland.

The radical libertarians in America from Lysander Spooner to Murray Rothbard and beyond developed and popularized these arguments after Lipscomb did, but with no knowledge of Lipscomb.

He writes that, after college, he " began to put more emphasis on Austrian economics and paleolibertarian insights of Rothbard, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Rockwell.

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

This sparked an entire school of thought within economics, Free Banking, with banks not being banned from having fractional reserves as Rothbard advocated, but instead being free to experiment and discover the best method of conducting business.

Godwin's political views were diverse and do not perfectly agree with any of the ideologies that claim his influence ; writers of the Socialist Standard, organ of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, consider Godwin both an individualist and a communist ; anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard did not regard Godwin as being in the individualist camp at all, referring to him as the " founder of communist anarchism "; and historian Albert Weisbord considers him an individualist anarchist without reservation.

By the turn of the 20th century, the heyday of individualist anarchism had passed, although aspects of the individualist anarchist tradition were later revived with modifications by Murray Rothbard and his anarcho-capitalism in the mid-20th century, as a current of the broader libertarian movement.

Murray Rothbard, a student of Ludwig von Mises, combined the Austrian school economics of his teacher with the absolutist views of human rights and rejection of the state he had absorbed from studying the individualist American anarchists of the 19th century such as Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker.

In the mid-1950s Rothbard wrote an article under a pseudonym, saying that " we are not anarchists ... but not archists either ... Perhaps, then, we could call ourselves by a new name: nonarchist ," concerned with differentiating himself from communist and socialistic economic views of other anarchists ( including the individualist anarchists of the 19th century ).

Some critics, such as Rothbard, have sought to infer that Keynes had sympathy with Nazism, and a number of writers have described him as anti-Semitic.

* La Boétie, Etienne, The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude ( 16th century ) with an introduction by Murray Rothbard, Free Life Editions, 1975.

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

The website offers an array of articles and books by Ludwig von Mises, Murray N. Rothbard, and many other scholars who write in the tradition established by Carl Menger in 1871 with the publication of his Principles of Economics.

The New York Peace and Freedom Party consisted of a fractious coalition of competing Marxist groups, along with libertarians led by economist Murray Rothbard.

Rockwell credits Rothbard with convincing him to reject statism completely:

* Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard ( with Walter Block ) ( 1986 ; online e-book ) ISBN 99911-786-2-7

" Rothbard gave the film a generally positive review, while expressing some reservations with the story:

From 1969 to 1971 Hess edited The Libertarian Forum with Rothbard.

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 >

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

Murray Rothbard declared in 1992 that " with Pat Buchanan as our leader, we shall break the clock of social democracy.

After 1989, Raimondo again began working with Rothbard in the anti-war, paleoconservative John Randolph Club.

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