All Posts Tagged With: "Murray Rothbard"
The American Land Question
Widespread landownership long supported a kind of liberal-republican independence. Perhaps we should reexamine the nexus and ask ourselves how, in Donald Davidson’s words, we “let the freehold pass,” and whether that was really for the best.
10Jun2009 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 6 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Thanks to Milton Friedman’s brilliance, charisma, and diplomacy he became an ardent spokesman for many free-market reforms in this country. And now Ivan Pongracic, Jr. (“The Great Depression According to Milton Friedman,” September 2007) gives him credit for accomplishing what seems miraculous—convincing Fed officials that the Fed itself was responsible for precipitating the crash and [...]
1Dec2007 | agardner | 0 comments | ContinuedMurray Rothbard’s Philosophy of Freedom
Murray Rothbard (1926–1995) based his political philosophy on a simple insight: slavery is wrong. Few, if any, would dare to challenge this obvious truth; but its implications are far reaching. It is Rothbard’s singular merit to show that rejecting slavery leads inexorably to laissez-faire capitalism, unrestricted by the slightest government interference.
If we reject slavery, then [...]
Economic Calculation in the Corporate Commonwealth
Kevin Carson is the author of Studies in Mutualist Political Economy. He blogs at Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism. The present article comes out of his work on a forthcoming book on anarchist organization theory.
The general lines of Ludwig von Mises’s rational-calculation argument are well known. A market in factors of production is necessary for [...]
Downsizing the Federal Government
By Chris Edwards Reviewed by J. H. Huebert
1May2007 | J.H. Huebert | 0 comments | ContinuedOn Misplaced Concreteness in Social Theory
Joseph Stromberg (jrstromberg@charter.net) is a historian and freelance writer.
The following piece will not be as abstruse as its title suggests. Rather, it results from the simple observation that, time and time again, some harmful outcome or process commonly attributed to the everyday workings of the market economy actually does exist, but it exists in the [...]
Mere Isolationism: The Foreign Policy of the Old Right
Joseph Stromberg is a part-time college lecturer in history.
One of the “lost causes” to which libertarians are attached—and one of the most important—is that of the “isolationist” Old Right. As used by the late Murray Rothbard, among others, the term “Old Right” refers to a loose coalition opposed to the New Deal in both its [...]
Hands Off
Sheldon Richman is editor of Ideas on Liberty.
A Microsoft study from November 1997 reveals that the company could have charged $49 for an upgrade to Windows 98—there is no reason to believe that the $49 price would have been unprofitable—but the study identifies $89 as the revenue-maximizing price. Microsoft thus opted for the higher price.
Thus [...]
States’ Rights and Freedom
To the Editor:
Gene Healy represents a disturbing trend among some libertarians to nostalgically recall the good old days when states were bastions of freedom. Those days never existed; and as James Madison depicts them in Federalist No. 10, even at the founding they were such bastions of tyranny that a stronger national government was called [...]
Letters
Concerning Water
Dear Mr. Read:
Congratulations on publishing the stimulating and challenging article on “Ownership and Control of Water” in the November issue of Ideas On Liberty. It is highly important that we think more about such fine points of complexity in our societal system. I offer these further thoughts on water rights, not as the final [...]
The Railroads Of France
Mr. Rothbard is a free-lance writer and has taught economies at The City College of New York.
Ever since railroads were established by private enterprise, they have been a favorite candidate for nationalization. France offers a typical story of government operation of the railroads.
France took its first halting step toward nationalization of railways in [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
