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Murray thought it was the best possible way to start a day". [83] Rothbard was irreligious and agnostic about God, [84] [85] describing himself as a "mixture of an agnostic and a Reform Jew". [86] Despite identifying as an agnostic and an atheist, he was critical of the "left-libertarian hostility to religion". [87]
In the 1960s, Rothbard began questioning the alliance between libertarians and conservatives, especially given the vast difference of opinion on such issues as the Vietnam War. 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 ...
According to Rothbard, increasing the supply of money confuses society's ability to calculate relative costs during the time of monetary expansion. This is because the money is not injected into all areas of the economy at once, resulting in what Rothbard describes as deceiving investors with "wasteful booms" and subsequent readjustments ...
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]
Murray Rothbard, Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy (1995). The Rothbard-Rockwell Report (1990–1999) [ 2 ] Rockwell, Jr, Llewellyn H., editor, The Irrepressible Rothbard: The Rothbard-Rockwell Report, Essays of Murray N. Rothbard (2000)
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. [4]
For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (1973; second edition 1978; third edition 1985) is a book by American economist and historian Murray Rothbard, in which the author promotes anarcho-capitalism.
The Case Against the Fed is a 1994 book by Murray N. Rothbard criticising the United States Federal Reserve, fractional reserve banking, and central banks in general. [1] It details a history of fractional reserve banking and the influence that bankers have had on monetary policy over the last few centuries.