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In response to Rothbard's charge that Smith's The Wealth of Nations was largely plagiarized, David D. Friedman castigated Rothbard's scholarship and character, saying that he "was [either] deliberately dishonest or never really read the book he was criticizing". [97] Tony Endres called Rothbard's treatment of Smith a "travesty". [98]
David Friedman is the son of economists Rose and Milton Friedman. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1965, with a bachelor's degree in chemistry and physics. [ 5 ] He later earned a master's (1967) and a PhD (1971) in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago . [ 6 ]
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]
Economist Alex Tabarrok argued that Somalia in its stateless period provided a "unique test of the theory of anarchy", in some aspects near of that espoused by anarcho-capitalists David D. Friedman and Murray Rothbard. [24] Nonetheless, both anarchists and some anarcho-capitalists argue that Somalia was not an anarchist society. [178] [179]
Prominent libertarian thinkers such as Murray Rothbard considered pollution an act of aggression, mostly focusing on air pollution, though in absolute terms light pollution, sound, and anything that crosses a boundary into someone's property or person can constitute aggression. In order to avoid having mere existence violate the non-aggression ...
The Machinery of Freedom is a nonfiction book by David D. Friedman that advocates an anarcho-capitalist society from a consequentialist perspective. The book was published in 1973, [ 1 ] with a second edition in 1989 and a third edition in 2014.
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.
Rothbard states that government's involvement in defining arbitrary limits on the duration, scope and so on of intellectual property in order to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" is inherently problematic, saying: "By what standard do you judge that research expenditures are 'too much,' 'too little,' or just about enough?".