In recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirmative action. Murray N. Rothbard's classic The Ethics of Liberty stands as one of the most rigorous and philosophically sophisticated expositions of the libertarian political position. What distinguishes Rothbard's book is the manner in which it roots the case for freedom in the concept of natural rights and applies it to a host of practical problems. An economist by profession, Rothbard here proves himself equally at home with philosophy. And while his conclusions are radical—that a social order that strictly adheres to the rights of private property must exclude the institutionalized violence inherent in the state—his applications of libertarian principles prove surprisingly practical for a host of social dilemmas, solutions to which have eluded alternative traditions. The Ethics of Liberty authoritatively established the anarcho-capitalist economic system as the most viable and the only principled option for a social order based on freedom. This edition is newly indexed and includes a new introduction that takes special note of the Robert Nozick-Rothbard controversies.

The Ethics of Liberty

Business & Money

MURRAY N. ROTHBARD

Business Culture

NYU Press

Explains the Misesian business cycle theory and examines factors that caused and prolonged the 1929 depression

America's Great Depression

Economics

New York University Press

Power and Market: Government and the Economy

Murray Rothbard

Sheed, Andrews, and McMeel

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A classic that for over two decades has been hailed as the best general work on libertarianism available. Rothbard begins with a quick overview of its historical roots, and then goes on to define libertarianism as resting "upon one single axiom: that no man or group of men shall aggress upon the person or property of anyone else." He writes a withering critique of the chief violator of liberty: the State. Rothbard then provides penetrating libertarian solutions for many of today's most pressing problems, including poverty, war, threats to civil liberties, the education crisis, and more.

For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Libertarian Review Foundation

LARGE PRINT EDITION! More at LargePrintLiberty.com  For many who have read this book-length essay, it marked a turning point in a new understanding.  The mainstream will forever attempt to pigeonhole belief systems based on the left-right dichotomy. The right supposedly favors economic freedom plus militarism, while the left favors socialism plus peace. Rothbard says that this breakdown is not only incoherent, it has no support in the history of ideas.  In fact, Rothbard goes further to say that traditionally, the right has been the party of the establishment, of stasis, of the status quo, while the left in history has been the party of progress, freedom, and peace. These roles have periodically reversed based on the times and the country in question. But in these reversals, the intellectual coherence of these paradigms has gotten lost and confused.  Rothbard's broad look is a mind-opening experience. It has the effect of liberating you from the prevailing paradigm.  Rothbard's main task, however, is to provide a completely new and ideologically consistent lens with which to view history and current events.

Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty

Cato Institute

Individualism and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Cato Paper)

Philosophy

Applied Austrian economics doesn't get better than this. Murray N. Rothbard's America's Great Depression is a staple of modern economic literature and crucial for understanding a pivotal event in American and world history. 
The Mises Institute edition features, along with a new introduction by historian Paul Johnson, top-quality paper and bindings, in line with the standard set by The Scholars Edition of Human Action. 
Since it first appeared in 1963, it has been the definitive treatment of the causes of the depression. The book remains canonical today because the debate is still very alive. 
Rothbard opens with a theoretical treatment of business cycle theory, showing how an expansive monetary policy generates imbalances between investment and consumption. He proceeds to examine the Fed's policies of the 1920s, demonstrating that it was quite inflationary even if the effects did not show up in the price of goods and services. He showed that the stock market correction was merely one symptom of the investment boom that led inevitably to a bust. 
The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle, which in turn was generated by government intervention in the economy. Had the book appeared in the 1940s, it might have spared the world much grief. Even so, its appearance in 1963 meant that free-market advocates had their first full-scale treatment of this crucial subject. The damage to the intellectual world inflicted by Keynesian- and socialist-style treatments would be limited from that day forward.

Ludwig von Mises Institute

Rothbard's most famous monetary essay has appeared in multiple editions and influenced two generations of economists, investors, and businessmen. After presenting the basics of money and banking theory, he traces the decline of the dollar from the 18th century to the present, and provides lucid critiques of central banking, New Deal monetary policy, Nixonian fiat money, and fixed exchange rates. He also provides a blueprint for a return to a 100 percent reserve gold standard.

What Has Government Done to Our Money?

Laissez Faire Books

This bibliography contains more than 6,000 entries, with books annotated by Murray N. Rothbard, in a near-complete listing of articles by this Austrian journalist. It identifies for the first time unsigned editorials in the New York Times (1934-1946) which were actually written by Hazlitt, and reveals that he had a larger impact on our nation's intellectual life than anyone has yet realized.
The contents of this work include:Introduction (Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)Notes from the Compiler (Jeffrey A. Tucker)Books (Annotations by Murray N. Rothbard)Chapters in Books, Introductions, and Short MonographsArticles and EditorialsISBN 0945466161 158 pp.

Henry Hazlitt: A Giant of Liberty

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The Ethics of Liberty

America's Great Depression

Power and Market: Government and the Economy

Power and Market: Government and the Economy

For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty

Individualism and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Cato Paper)

America's Great Depression

What Has Government Done to Our Money?

Henry Hazlitt: A Giant of Liberty