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[ Previously unpublished online; Faith and Freedom 2, no. 9 (May 1951). ] Tempestuous “Old Hickory” has been one of the great storm centers of historical controversy. The old-line historian, who flourished about the end of the nineteenth century, regarded Andrew Jackson with undisguised contempt. He considered Jackson an unwashed, wild-eyed

[ Previously unpublished online; Faith and Freedom 1, no. 4 (March 1950) .] Citizens of the old Roman Empire distrusted paper currency and refused to accept anything but gold or silver coin as money. So the rulers found themselves barred from inflating the money supply by the unobtrusive method of printing additional currency. But the Roman

[ Previously unpublished online; Faith and Freedom 1, no. 3 (February 1950). ] When the war of the American Colonies against the British Crown broke out in 1775, the money supply of the Colonies consisted of about ten million dollars in gold and silver coins — “specie.” The taxation was difficult for the newly-formed Continental Congress and its

[ Editors note: Recently the Mises Institute received a box of documents belonging to Murray Rothbard from our friend Justin Raimondo. We will make new material available online as we work through the collection. The following is an autobiographical essay written while Murray was still a high school student. Fans of Rothbard will not only

One vexing current problem centers on who becomes the citizen of a given country, since citizenship confers voting rights. The Anglo-American model, in which every baby born in the country’s land area automatically becomes a citizen, clearly invites welfare immigration by expectant parents. In the U.S., for example, a current problem is illegal

[From the Rothbard Archive, originally published in The New York Times , September 4, 1971.] On Aug. 15, 1971, fascism came to America. And everyone cheered, hailing the fact that a “strong Presi­dent” was once again at the helm. The word fascism is scarcely an exaggeration to describe the New Economic Policy. The trend had been there for years,

This article is excerpted from chapter 13 of The Ethics of Liberty . Few aspects of libertarian political theory are in a less satisfactory state than the theory of punishment. Usually, libertarians have been content to assert or develop the axiom that no one may aggress against the person or property of another; what sanctions may be taken

[Originally published in The New Banner: A Fortnightly Libertarian Journal on 25 February 1972. Thanks to J. Michael Oliver ( The New Libertarian: Anarcho-Capitalism ) for sending it to the Mises Institute. Thanks also to W. Robert Black III, of the New Banner Institute .] Introduction Dr. Murray Rothbard, libertarianism’s foremost theorist and

This essay is adapted from Murray Rothbard’s Austrian Perspective on the History of Ecopnomic Thought , Volume II. While Ricardo formally admitted that supply and demand determine day-to-day market pricing, he tossed that aside as of no consequence. Utility Ricardo brusquely disposed of as ultimately necessary to production but of no influence

We live in a world of euphemism. Undertakers have become “morticians,” press agents are now “public relations counselors” and janitors have all been transformed into “superintendents.” In every walk of life, plain facts have been wrapped in cloudy camouflage. No less has this been true of economics. In the old days, we used to suffer nearly