All Posts Tagged With: "Murray Rothbard"

The Chimera of Tax Fairness

Let’s hear no more about tax fairness, unless it’s to point out that fairness is approached as tax rates move toward zero.

27Jan2012 | Sheldon Richman | 21 comments | Continued

The Importance of Subjectivism in Economics

After many years, Frédéric Bastiat remains a hero to libertarians. No mystery there. He made the case for freedom and punctured the arguments for state socialism with clarity and imagination. He spoke to lay readers with great effect. Bastiat loved the market economy, and badly wanted it to blossom in full—in France and everywhere else. [...]

23Mar2011 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | Continued

Murray Rothbard

In 1946 the fledgling Foundation for Economic Education published a pamphlet titled “Roofs or Ceilings: The Current Housing Problem,” a brief against rent control written by two unknown young economists: Milton Friedman and George Stigler. They would go on to win the Nobel Prize in economics in 1976 and 1982, respectively. That’s a remarkable story. [...]

24Mar2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

TGIF: Murray Rothbard

Those who cherish liberty cannot calculate their debt to Murray Rothbard. Read TGIF here.

15Jan2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

Murray Rothbard

Those who cherish liberty cannot calculate their debt to Murray Rothbard.

15Jan2010 | Sheldon Richman | 7 comments | Continued

The Calling: Remembering Rothbard

This month marks the 15th anniversary of the death of Murray Rothbard, arguably the most important libertarian theorist of the twentieth century.  Although I only met him once in person, his work was influential in developing my “calling” in a number of ways, and the way he approached his scholarly and activist work for libertarianism [...]

14Jan2010 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | Continued

Can We Afford to Avoid the Truth?

The Times is urging us in the name of “cost reduction” to accept a huge new government expense that will affect us all in ways we cannot imagine because the regime in power declares that it will cut costs. It must be so because, well, it must be so.

16Dec2009 | William L. Anderson | 4 comments | Continued

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 | Continued

Krugman Watch

Because someone has to do it. Remember, Herbert Hoover didn’t have a problem making unpleasant decisions: he had the courage and toughness to slash spending and raise taxes in the face of the Great Depression. Unfortunately, that just made things worse. –“Stuck in the Middle” Federal spending rose in 1930 and1931.From Murray Rothbard’s America’s Great [...]

26Jan2009 | Sheldon Richman | 5 comments | Continued

The Subsidy of History

A considerable number of libertarian commentators have remarked on the sheer scale of subsidies and protections to big business, on their structural importance to the existing form of corporate capitalism, and on the close intermeshing of corporate and state interests in the present state capitalist economy. We pay less attention, however, to the role of [...]

1Jun2008 | Kevin A. Carson | 16 comments | Continued

Capital 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 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | Continued

Murray 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, [...]

1Nov2007 | David Gordon | 1 comment | Continued

Economic Calculation in the Corporate Commonwealth

The general lines of Ludwig von Mises’s rational-calculation argument are well known. A market in factors of production is necessary for pricing production inputs so that a planner may allocate them rationally. The problem has nothing to do either with the volume of data or with agency problems. The question, rather, as Peter Klein put [...]

1Jun2007 | Kevin A. Carson | 20 comments | Continued

Downsizing the Federal Government

By Chris Edwards Reviewed by J. H. Huebert

1May2007 | Jacob H. Huebert | 0 comments | Continued

On Misplaced Concreteness in Social Theory

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 realm of the government and politics. Politicians and [...]

1May2006 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 0 comments | Continued

The Freeman: An Eyewitness View

The Freeman has a long and distinguished history
in the cause of liberty.

1Jan2006 | Leonard P. Liggio | 0 comments | Continued

Mises on Copyrights

The widespread reproduction and “sharing” of copyrighted music on the Internet led a friend to ask me what Ludwig von Mises would have thought about the situation. The more I pondered the question, the more I concluded that Mises would have considered this just another case where copyright law must play catch-up with new technology. [...]

1Jun2004 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 2 comments | Continued
Older Entries

    • © Copyright 2011 Freeman - Ideas on Liberty. All rights reserved.

    60 queries. 2.061 seconds