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[From “ Concepts of the Role of Intellectuals In Social Change Toward Laissez Faire “ in The Journal of Libertarian Studies , Fall 1990] Why, La Boétie cries out in anguish, why, when reason teaches us the justice of natural rights and equal liberty for all, why, when even animals display a natural instinct to be free, is man, “the only creature

Editor’s Note: The following essay was written while Rothbard was working on “Origins of the Welfare State in America,” which was originally published posthumously in the Journal of Libertarian Studies in 1996 (Rothbard 1996). “Origins” was included as Chapter 11 in The Progressive Era (Rothbard 2017). The draft pages of “Beginning the Welfare

By Murray Rothbard [ Editor’s Note: This is a Selection from “Nations by Consent:Decomposing the Nation-State”] The “nation,” of course, is not the same thing as the state, a difference that earlier libertarians and classical liberals such as Ludwig von Mises and Albert Jay Nock understood full well. Contemporary libertarians often assume,

[ A selection from  For a New Liberty .] If, as libertarians believe, every individual has the right to own his person and property, it then follows that he has the right to employ violence to defend himself against the violence of criminal aggressors. But for some odd reason, liberals have systematically tried to deprive innocent persons of the

One thing I learned from Professor King’s paper is that he and I are far less in agreement on punishment theory than I had anticipated. It is perhaps fortunate for King that I do not hold with an expectations theory of contract because then I might argue that he deserves to be punished for dashing my expectations. And since, on his very own

In an article on Ludwig von Mises,’ Professor R. A. Gonce has performed a remarkable feat: for he has ascribed to a writer who has had nothing but scorn for natural law, a system of economics grounded on such an ethical philosophy -and as a corollary, he has attributed a fusion of the is and the ought to one of the most uncompromising champions of

That Ludwig von Mises was the outstanding champion of laizes-faire and the free-market economy in this century is well know and needs no documentation. But in the course of refining and codifying his political views, Mises’ followers have unwitting distorted them and made them seed at one with the modern conservative movement in the United States.

Volume 7, Number 2 (1985) Since I admittedly know more about Austrian economic theory than about Richard Cantillon, I would like to focus my comments on the Austrian aspects of Prof. Hébert’s paper, in particular his discussion of entrepreneurship. Hébert is correct in his discussion of the differences between Mises’s and Kirzner’s concept of the

In this paper, I will be dealing with various examples of individual or groups of progressive intellectuals, exulting in the triumph of their creed and their own place in it, as a result of America’s entry into World War I. Volume 9, Number 1 (1989) Rothbard, Murray N. “World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals.” Journal of

[From the Journal of Libertarian Studies 12, no. 2 (Fall 1996).] Introduction Why The Welfare State? Yankee Postmillennial Pietism Yankee Women: The Driving Force Gradual Secularization of Postmillennial Pietism Yankee Women Progressives The New Deal The Rockefellers and Social Security Introduction Standard theory views government as functional: