Rothbard as a Political Philosopher
Murray N. Rothbard was an economist, a philosopher, an historian, and a cultural commentator.
Murray N. Rothbard was an economist, a philosopher, an historian, and a cultural commentator.
This paper seeks to present Mises’s views on cultural questions as well as his belief that certain cultural institutions are buttressed by a
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Endres has done an adequate job of high lighting elements of distinctiveness and similarity among the founding Austrians (Menger, Wieser, and Böhm-Bawerk) which go beyond the cut-and-dried methodological issues emphasized by later Austrians.
I have re-examined Bastiat’s contributions to economic theory and have found the charges against him to be unsubstantiated. In terms of economic theory, Bastiat is widely knowledgeable
In 1982, Rothbard closed his remarks on the controversy over the journal’s name with the following statement: “At any rate, we have a tough row to hoe in Austrianism in general to rescue it from:
In the 1930's the Austrian School of economics lived through a crucial phase in its development, which led from the height of its influence at the beginning of the decade to its decline and dissolution after 1945.
Carl Menger, the founder of the Austrian School of economics, was instrumental in developing the Austrian analytical framework. However, the foundation of Austrian theory predates Menger by centuries.