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Murray Rothbard argued in The Ethics of Liberty in 1982 that taxation is theft and that tax resistance is therefore legitimate: "Just as no one is morally required to answer a robber truthfully when he asks if there are any valuables in one's house, so no one can be morally required to answer truthfully similar questions asked by the state, e.g ...
Rothbard argued that all services provided by the "monopoly system of the corporate state" [15] could be provided more efficiently by the private sector and wrote that the state is "the organization of robbery systematized and writ large". [16] [17] [18] He called fractional-reserve banking a form of fraud and opposed central banking. [19]
Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist, historian, and political theorist.He was a prominent exponent of the Austrian School of economics and fundamentally influenced the American libertarian movement and contemporary libertarian and classical liberal thought, by theorizing a form of free-market anarchism which he termed "anarcho-capitalism".
The Ethics of Liberty is a 1982 book by American philosopher and economist Murray N. Rothbard, [1] in which the author expounds a libertarian political position. [2] Rothbard's argument is based on a form of natural law ethics, [ 3 ] and makes a case for anarcho-capitalism .
Rothbard concluded that libertarianism had its roots in the political left, and therefore that libertarians of the Old Right would be better suited in alliance with the growing anti-authoritarianism of the New Left. As Rothbard put it in the opening editorial of the journal: "Our title, Left and Right, reflects our concerns in several ways. It ...
Prosecutors say Richard Crosby III used an fake identity to secure employment at numerous law firms over the last two years.
The institute was founded in January 1977 in San Francisco, California; [1] named at the suggestion of cofounder Rothbard after Cato's Letters, a series of British essays penned in the early 18th century by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon. [8] [9] In 1981, Murray Rothbard was removed from the Cato Institute by the board. [10]
This is just one of many alleged crimes dating back to the 1990s that would have gone unsolved if it weren't for two persistent victims: a small-town chief and a Northern California district attorney.