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[This article originally appeared in the publication New Libertarian in April 1985.] Since anarchists and other libertarians are, to say the least, an em­battled minority, we have tended to be indulgent toward anyone and everyone in our ranks, even those who have been busily pecking away at the vitals of the libertarian position; Or, to change our

[ From Power and Market. ] Uniformity of treatment has been upheld as an ideal by almost all writers. This ideal is supposed to be implicit in the concept of “equality before the law,” which is best expressed in the phrase, “Like to be treated alike.” To most economists this ideal has seemed self-evident, and the only problems considered have been

In the 20th century, the advocates of free-market economics almost invariably pin the blame for government intervention solely on erroneous ideas — that is, on incorrect ideas about which policies will advance the public weal. To most of these writers, any such concept as “ruling class” sounds impossibly Marxist. In short, what they are really

The following points of desocialization must necessarily be written or read sequentially, but they need not be carried out in that manner: all the following points could, and should, be instituted immediately and all at once. Legalize the Black Market The first two planks are implicit in the previous part of this paper. One, is to legalize the

[Excerpted from Murray Rothbard, The Progressive Era , Patrick Newman, ed. (Auburn, Al.: Mises Institute, 2016), chap. 11.] The Rockefellers and their intellectual and technocratic entourage were, indeed, central to the New Deal. In a deep sense, in fact, the New Deal itself constituted a radical displacement of the Morgans, who had dominated the

There is one important area of American life where no effective freedom of speech or the press does or can exist under the present system. That is the entire field of radio and television. In this area, the federal government, in the crucially important Radio Act of 1927, nationalized the airwaves. In effect, the federal government took title to

The Free Market 25, no. 4 (April 2007) Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was dean of the Austrian School. This article, which appeared in National Review in 1959, is the introduction to the new Mises Institute edition of Hazlitt’s Failure of the “New Economics.“   For most people, economics has ever been the “dismal science,” to be passed over

The Free Market 29, no. 2 (February 2011) Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was dean of the Austrian School. He was an economist, economic historian, and libertarian political philosopher. This essay is the introduction to a new edition of Mises’s The Clash of Group Interests , published by the Mises Institute, 2011.   The advocates of free-market

  Volume 2, No. 3 (Fall 1999)   The financial elites of this country, notably the Morgan, Rockefeller, and Kuhn, Loeb  interests, were responsible for putting through the Federal Reserve System,  as a governmentally created and sanctioned cartel device to enable the nation’s  banks to inflate the money supply in a coordinated fashion, without

  Volume 4, No. 1 (Spring 2001)   We must all be grateful to Professors Walter J. Blum and Harry J.  Kalven ,  Jr . for providing in a brief space a cogent review and critique of the various arguments for progressive taxation, together with an extensive and valuable bibliography of the varying points of view.  We must also be grateful to discover