Murray Rothbard Quotes


If we look around, then, at the crucial problem areas of our society - the areas of crisis and failure - we find in each and every case a “red thread” marking and uniting them all: the thread of government. In every one of these cases, government either has totally run or heavily influenced the activity.


Citations

Rothbard, Murray N. For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto. Macmillan, 1973, p. 11.

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Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard
  • Born: March 2, 1926
  • Died: January 7, 1995
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Economist

Murray Newton Rothbard was an American heterodox economist of the Austrian School, economic historian and political theorist. Rothbard was the founder and leading theoretician of anarcho-capitalism, a staunch advocate of historical revisionism and a central figure in the 20th-century American libertarian movement. He wrote over twenty books on political theory, revisionist history, economics, and other subjects.