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Murray N. Rothbard

Murray Rothbard
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Born Murray Newton Rothbard
(1926-03-02)March 2, 1926
Bronx, New York City, New York, United States
Died January 7, 1995(1995-01-07) (aged 68)
New York City, New York, United States
Nationality American
Institution Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
School or
tradition
Austrian School
Alma mater Columbia University
Influences John Locke, Ludwig von Mises, Albert Jay Nock, H.L. Mencken, Lysander Spooner, Harry Elmer Barnes, Frank Chodorov, Joseph Schumpeter, Thomas Aquinas, Jean-Baptiste Say, Carl Menger, Aristotle, William Graham Sumner, Herbert Spencer, Franz Oppenheimer, John C. Calhoun, Frédéric Bastiat
Influenced Ron Paul, Walter Block, Lew Rockwell, Joseph Sobran, Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Roderick T. Long, Gary North, Joseph Salerno, Samuel Edward Konkin III, Rand Paul
Contributions Anarcho-capitalism, paleolibertarianism, historical revisionism, libertarianism

Murray Newton Rothbard (/ˈmʌri ˈrɑːθbɑːrd/; March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American heterodox economist of the Austrian School, a revisionist historian, and a political theorist whose writings and personal influence played a seminal role in the development of modern libertarianism. Rothbard was the founder and leading theoretician of anarcho-capitalism, a staunch advocate of historical revisionism, and a central figure in the twentieth-century American libertarian movement. He wrote over twenty books on political theory, revisionist history, economics, and other subjects. Rothbard asserted that all services provided by the "monopoly system of the corporate state" could be provided more efficiently by the private sector and wrote that the state is "the organization of robbery systematized and writ large." He called fractional-reserve banking a form of fraud and opposed central banking. He categorically opposed all military, political, and economic interventionism in the affairs of other nations. According to his protégé Hans-Hermann Hoppe, "There would be no anarcho-capitalist movement to speak of without Rothbard."


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