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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Rothbard interprets the physical extent to which a homesteading act establishes ownership in terms of the relevant " technological unit ", which is the minimal amount necessary for the practical use of the resource.

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.

Rothbard served on its board until leaving in 1981 after disagreements with Ed Crane.

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

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:

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

* 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 >

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

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.

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.

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