History of the Austrian School of Economics

Imagine a world in which the works and ideas of Ludwig von Mises had been neglected and ultimately forgotten.

We see men who clap their hands when a great invention is introduced, and who nevertheless adhere to protectionism. Such men are grossly inconsistent!

"What should we do in case of war," it is said, "if we are placed at the mercy of England for iron and coal?"

Ignorance is incorrigible in those who venture to proclaim that there are no absolute principles.

The system of protection and the colonial system are only two aspects of one and the same theory.

The opponents of free trade are not men of practice; they are men of abstraction — and of extortion.

Is it true that protection, which admittedly makes you pay dearer for everything, and entails a loss on you in this respect, raises your wages?

There is only one thing that is certain about the individual's future & death.

Murray Rothbard eventually realized that  he was  writing a brand new treatise.