79-604: The Maine Service Employees Association (formerly Maine State Employees Association ) is a public sector trade union in the U.S. state of Maine . It has been part of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU Local 1989) since 1988, though it formed earlier. Its newspaper is called the Maine Stater. MSEA SEIU 1989 voted to change their name from Maine State Employees Association to Maine Service Employees Association. This Maine -related article
158-587: A heart attack on January 7, 1995, in St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in Manhattan, at the age of 68. The New York Times obituary called Rothbard "an economist and social philosopher who fiercely defended individual freedom against government intervention". Lew Rockwell, president of the Mises Institute, told The New York Times that Rothbard was "the founder of right-wing anarchism". William F. Buckley Jr. wrote
237-631: A paleolibertarian , a conservative reaction against the cultural liberalism of mainstream libertarianism. Paleolibertarianism sought to appeal to disaffected working class whites through a synthesis of cultural conservatism and libertarian economics. According to Reason , Rothbard advocated right-wing populism in part because he was frustrated that mainstream thinkers were not adopting the libertarian view and suggested that former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke , as well as Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy , were models for an "Outreach to
316-488: A " People's Republic " style draft . It was during this phase that he associated with Karl Hess (a former Barry Goldwater speechwriter who had rejected conservatism) and founded Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought with Leonard Liggio and George Resch. Raimondo described Rothbard during this time as "a man of the Old Culture: he believed that it was possible to be a revolutionary, an anarchist, and lead
395-401: A "dismal monetary and banking situation". He called John Stuart Mill a "wooly man of mush" and speculated that Mill's "soft" personality led his economic thought astray. Rothbard was critical of monetarist economist Milton Friedman . In his polemic "Milton Friedman Unraveled", he called Friedman a "statist", a "favorite of the establishment", a friend of and "apologist" for Richard Nixon and
474-609: A "fan letter", calling the book "an infinite treasure house" and "not merely the greatest novel ever written, [but] one of the very greatest books ever written, fiction or nonfiction". He also wrote: "[Y]ou introduced me to the whole field of natural rights and natural law philosophy", prompting him to learn "the glorious natural rights tradition". Rothbard rejoined Rand's circle for a few months, but soon broke with Rand again over various differences, including his defense of his interpretation of anarchism. Rothbard later satirized Rand's acolytes in his unpublished one-act farce Mozart Was
553-521: A "fringe existence" in academia, but he was able to attract a large number of "students and disciples" through his writings, thereby becoming "the creator and one of the principal agents of the contemporary libertarian movement". Libertarian economist Jeffrey Herbener, who called Rothbard his friend and "intellectual mentor", said in a memoriam that Rothbard received "only ostracism" from mainstream academia. Rothbard kept his position at UNLV from 1986 until his death. Throughout his life, Rothbard engaged in
632-487: A "pernicious influence" on public policy. Rothbard said that libertarians should scorn rather than celebrate Friedman's academic prestige and political influence. Noting that Rothbard has "been nasty to me and my work", Friedman responded to Rothbard's criticism by calling him a "cult builder and a dogmatist". In a memorial volume published by the Mises Institute, Rothbard's protégé and libertarian theorist Hans-Hermann Hoppe wrote that Man, Economy, and State "presented
711-565: A "positivist" who failed to represent the views of Ludwig von Mises. Rothbard stated that in fact Machlup shared the opposing positivist view associated with economist Milton Friedman . Mises and Machlup had been colleagues in 1920s Vienna before each relocated to the United States, and Mises later urged his American protege Israel Kirzner to pursue his PhD studies with Machlup at Johns Hopkins University . According to libertarian economists Tyler Cowen and Richard Fink, Rothbard wrote that
790-503: A "private property anarchist" and published works about private property anarchism in 1954; later, in 1971, he began to use " anarcho-capitalist " to describe his political ideology. In his anarcho-capitalist model, the system of private property is upheld by private firms, such as hypothesized protection agencies, which compete in a free market and are voluntarily supported by consumers who choose to use their protective and judicial services. Anarcho-capitalists describe this as "the end of
869-606: A Red and his essay "The Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult". He characterized Rand's circle as a "dogmatic, personality cult". His play parodies Rand (through the character Carson Sand) and her friends and is set during a visit from Keith Hackley, a fan of Sand's novel The Brow of Zeus (a play on Atlas Shrugged ). By the late 1960s, according to The American Conservative , Rothbard's "long and winding yet somehow consistent road had taken him from anti- New Deal and anti-interventionist Robert A. Taft supporter into friendship with
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#1733133750976948-621: A blistering refutation of all variants of mathematical economics" and included it among Rothbard's "almost mind-boggling achievements". Hoppe lamented that, like Mises, Rothbard died without winning the Nobel Prize and, while acknowledging that Rothbard and his work were largely ignored by academia, called him an "intellectual giant" comparable to Aristotle , John Locke , and Immanuel Kant . Georgetown Professor Randy Barnett says, regarding Rothbard's "insistence on complete ideological purity", that "[a]lmost every intellectual who entered his orbit
1027-468: A bourgeois life", and wrote that the "respectably dressed, if a bit rumpled" Rothbard was "immune to the blandishments of sixties youth culture". During this time, Rothbard proposed that black Americans should embrace racial separatism and secession . He was frustrated that blacks and whites in the New Left instead decided to work together for egalitarian goals. In the 1970s, Rothbard turned sharply against
1106-464: A commercial basis. Organizations that are not part of the public sector are either part of the private sector or voluntary sector . The private sector is composed of the economic sectors that are intended to earn a profit for the owners of the enterprise. The voluntary, civic, or social sector concerns a diverse array of non-profit organizations emphasizing civil society . In the United Kingdom,
1185-595: A critical obituary in the National Review , criticizing Rothbard's "defective judgment" and views on the Cold War . Hoppe, Rockwell, and Rothbard's other colleagues at the Mises Institute took a different view, arguing that he was one of the most important philosophers in history. Rothbard was an advocate and practitioner of the Austrian School tradition of his teacher Ludwig von Mises . Like Mises, Rothbard rejected
1264-686: A decisive influence upon America's Founding Fathers in fomenting the Revolution". From 1978 to 1983, Rothbard was associated with the Libertarian Party Radical Caucus , allying himself with Justin Raimondo , Eric Garris and Williamson Evers . He opposed the "low-tax liberalism" espoused by 1980 Libertarian Party presidential candidate Ed Clark and Cato Institute president Edward H Crane III . According to Charles Burris, "Rothbard and Crane became bitter rivals after disputes emerging from
1343-587: A key figure in the John Randolph Club , which was an alliance between the Mises Institute and the paleoconservative Rockford Institute . He supported the presidential campaign of Pat Buchanan in 1992, writing that "with Pat Buchanan as our leader, we shall break the clock of social democracy ". When Buchanan dropped out of the Republican primary race, Rothbard then shifted his interest and support to Ross Perot , who Rothbard wrote had "brought an excitement,
1422-435: A middle of the roader on the archy question. In Man, Economy, and State , Rothbard divides the various kinds of state intervention in three categories: "autistic intervention" (interference with private non-economic activities); "binary intervention", (exchange between individuals and the state); and "triangular intervention" (state-mandated exchange between individuals). Sanford Ikeda wrote that Rothbard's typology "eliminates
1501-447: A monetary ideal—a position "not all that different from Mr [Scott] Sumner 's". According to economist Peter Boettke, Rothbard is better described as a property rights economist than as an Austrian economist. In 1988, Boettke noted that Rothbard "vehemently attacked all of the books of the younger Austrians". Although Rothbard adopted Ludwig von Mises' deductive methodology for his social theory and economics, he parted with Mises on
1580-470: A number of different political movements to promote Old Right and libertarian political principles. George Hawley writes that "unfortunately for Rothbard, the Old Right was ending as an intellectual and political force just as he was maturing as an intellectual", with the militantly anticommunist conservative movement exemplified by William F. Buckley Jr. supplanting the Old Right's isolationism. Rothbard
1659-406: A public sector for provision of certain services, such as national defense, public works and utilities, and pollution controls. Murray Rothbard Murray Newton Rothbard ( / ˈ r ɒ θ b ɑːr d / ; March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist of the Austrian School , economic historian , political theorist , and activist . Rothbard was a central figure in
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#17331337509761738-509: A retainer as a "senior analyst". As Rothbard continued his work, he enlarged the project. The result was his book Man, Economy, and State , published in 1962. Upon its publication, Mises praised Rothbard's work effusively. In contrast to Mises, who considered security the primary justification for the state, Rothbard in the 1950s began to argue for a privatized market for the military, police and judiciary. Rothbard's 1963 book America's Great Depression blamed government policy failures for
1817-572: A second—and if it could, all you'd want to do is get out, or commit suicide or something." Active Defunct Publications Works According to anarcho-capitalists , various theorists have espoused legal philosophies similar to anarcho-capitalism ; however, Rothbard was credited with coining the terms "anarcho-capitalist" and "anarch-capitalism" in 1971 (though "anarchocapitalism [sic]" had been attested earliest in Karl Hess 's 1969 essay The Death of Politics ). He synthesized elements from
1896-525: A series of Libertarian Forum articles. In 1982, Rothbard called Reagan's claims of spending cuts a "fraud" and a "hoax" and accused Reaganites of doctoring the economic statistics to give the false impression that their policies were successfully reducing inflation and unemployment. He further criticized the "myths of Reaganomics " in 1987. Rothbard criticized the "frenzied nihilism" of left-wing libertarians but also criticized right-wing libertarians who were content to rely only on education to bring down
1975-478: A series of polemics in which he deprecated a number of leading modern economists. He vilified Adam Smith , calling him a "shameless plagiarist" who set economics off track, ultimately leading to the rise of Marxism . Rothbard praised Smith's contemporaries, including Richard Cantillon , Anne Robert Jacques Turgot and Étienne Bonnot de Condillac , for developing the subjective theory of value . In response to Rothbard's charge that Smith's The Wealth of Nations
2054-490: A verve, a sense of dynamics and of open possibilities to what had threatened to be a dreary race". Rothbard eventually withdrew his support from Perot, and endorsed George H. W. Bush in the 1992 election . Like Buchanan, Rothbard opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); however, he had become disillusioned with Buchanan by 1995, believing that the latter's "commitment to protectionism
2133-613: A week gave him freedom to contribute to developments in libertarian politics. Rothbard continued in this role until 1986. Then 60 years old, Rothbard left Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute for the Lee Business School at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), where he held the title of S.J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics, a chair endowed by a libertarian businessman. According to Rothbard's friend, colleague and fellow Misesian economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe , Rothbard led
2212-404: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a United States labor union is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Public sector The public sector , also called the state sector , is the part of the economy composed of both public services and public enterprises . Public sectors include the public goods and governmental services such as
2291-422: Is made up of employees of town halls and regional councils: 25% of the workforce. The hospital civil service ( Fonction publique hospitalière , FPH) consists of doctors and nurses and is 21% of the workforce. Right-libertarian and Austrian School economists have criticized the idea of public sector provision of goods and services as inherently inefficient. In 1961, Murray Rothbard wrote: "Any reduction of
2370-427: Is private property which may change hands only by trade or gift. Rothbard was a strong critic of egalitarianism . The title essay of Rothbard's 1974 book Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays held: "Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences." In it, Rothbard wrote: "At
2449-406: The 1948 presidential election , Rothbard, "as a Jewish student at Columbia, horrified his peers by organizing a Students for Strom Thurmond chapter, so staunchly did he believe in states' rights ", according to The American Conservative . The delay in receiving his PhD was due in part to conflict with his advisor, Joseph Dorfman, and in part to Arthur Burns 's rejecting his dissertation. Burns
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2528-636: The Bronx . Rothbard wrote of having grown up as a " right-winger " (adherent of the " Old Right ") among friends and neighbors who were " communists or fellow-travelers ". He was a member of the New York Young Republican Club in his youth. Rothbard described his father as an individualist who embraced minimal government , free enterprise , private property and "a determination to rise by one's own merits ... [A]ll socialism seemed to me monstrously coercive and abhorrent." In 1952, his father
2607-508: The Cato Institute 's journal. In 1954, Rothbard, along with several other attendees of Mises's seminar, joined the circle of novelist Ayn Rand , the founder of Objectivism . He soon parted from her, writing among other things that her ideas were not as original as she proclaimed, but similar to those of Aristotle , Thomas Aquinas and Herbert Spencer . In 1958, after the publication of Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged , Rothbard wrote her
2686-521: The Center for Libertarian Studies in 1976 and the Journal of Libertarian Studies in 1977. He was one of the founders of the Cato Institute in 1977 (whose funding by Charles Koch was a major infusion of money for libertarianism) and "came up with the idea of naming this libertarian think tank after Cato's Letters , a powerful series of British newspaper essays by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon which played
2765-563: The Great Depression , and challenged the widely-held view that capitalism is unstable. In 1953, Rothbard married JoAnn Beatrice Schumacher (1928–1999), whom he called Joey, in New York City. She was a historian, Rothbard's personal editor and a close adviser as well as hostess of his Rothbard Salon. They enjoyed a loving marriage and Rothbard often called her "the indispensable framework" of his life and achievements. According to her,
2844-696: The Mises Institute in Alabama . Rothbard opposed egalitarianism and the civil rights movement , and blamed women's voting and activism for the growth of the welfare state . He promoted historical revisionism and befriended the Holocaust denier Harry Elmer Barnes . Later in his career, Rothbard advocated a libertarian alliance with paleoconservatism (which he called paleolibertarianism ), favoring right-wing populism and describing David Duke and Joseph McCarthy as models for political strategy. In
2923-596: The military , law enforcement , infrastructure , public transit , public education , along with health care and those working for the government itself, such as elected officials . The public sector might provide services that a non-payer cannot be excluded from (such as street lighting), services which benefit all of society rather than just the individual who uses the service. Public enterprises, or state-owned enterprises, are self-financing commercial enterprises that are under public ownership which provide various private goods and services for sale and usually operate on
3002-484: The praxeology of Ludwig von Mises . Rothbard taught economics at a Wall Street division of New York University , later at Brooklyn Polytechnic , and after 1986 in an endowed position at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas . Partnering with the oil billionaire Charles Koch , Rothbard was a founder of the Cato Institute and the Center for Libertarian Studies in the 1970s. He broke with Cato and Koch, and in 1982 joined Lew Rockwell and Burton Blumert to establish
3081-454: 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. Rothbard led a "fringe existence" in academia, as described by his protégé Hans-Hermann Hoppe . Rothbard rejected mainstream economic methodologies and instead embraced
3160-648: The 1950s, when Mises was teaching in the Wall Street division of the New York University Stern School of Business , Rothbard attended his unofficial seminar. Rothbard wanted to promote libertarian activism; by the mid-1950s he helped form the Circle Bastiat, a libertarian and anarchist social group in New York City. He also joined the Mont Pelerin Society in the 1950s. Rothbard attracted
3239-486: The 1980 LP presidential campaign of Ed Clark carried over to strategic direction and management of Cato". Janek Wasserman wrote that "The tempestuous tale of the Rothbard-Koch-Cato relationship has been told and retold because of its floridness". Rothbard sought to cultivate radical anarcho-capitalists, while Crane and Koch wanted a more reformist approach to influence government and gain political power. Rothbard
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3318-435: The 2010s, he received renewed attention as an influence on the alt-right . Rothbard's parents were David and Rae Rothbard, Jewish immigrants to the United States from Poland and Russia, respectively. David was a chemist. He attended Birch Wathen Lenox School , a private school in New York City. Rothbard later said he much preferred Birch Wathen to the "debasing and egalitarian public school system " he had attended in
3397-417: The 20th-century American libertarian movement , particularly its right-wing strands, and was a founder and leading theoretician of anarcho-capitalism . He wrote over twenty books on political theory, history, economics, and other subjects. Rothbard argued that all services provided by the "monopoly system of the corporate state" could be provided more efficiently by the private sector and wrote that
3476-593: The Austrian School of economics, classical liberalism and 19th-century American individualist anarchists into a right-wing form of anarchism. According to his protégé Hans-Hermann Hoppe , "[t]here would be no anarcho-capitalist movement to speak of without Rothbard". Lew Rockwell in a memoriam called Rothbard the "conscience" of all the various strains of what he described as "libertarian anarchism", and said their advocates had often been personally inspired by his example. During his years at graduate school in
3555-517: The Belgian economist Gustave de Molinari who wrote about how such a system could work. Thus, he "combined the laissez-faire economics of Mises with the absolutist views of human rights and rejection of the state" from individualist anarchists. Edward Stringham opined that: "In the late 1940s, Murray Rothbard decided that that [sic] private-property anarchism was the logical conclusion of free-market thinking [...]." Rothbard began to consider himself
3634-520: The Radical Caucus at the 1983 national convention over cultural issues and aligned himself with what he called the " right-wing populist " wing of the party, notably Lew Rockwell and Ron Paul , who ran for president on the Libertarian Party ticket in 1988 . In 1989, Rothbard left the Libertarian Party and began building bridges to the post- Cold War anti-interventionist right, calling himself
3713-588: The Rednecks" effort that could be used by a broad libertarian/paleoconservative coalition. Working together, the coalition would expose the "unholy alliance of 'corporate liberal' Big Business and media elites, who, through big government, have privileged and caused to rise up a parasitic Underclass". Rothbard blamed this "Underclass" for "looting and oppressing the bulk of the middle and working classes in America". Regarding Duke's political program, Rothbard asserted that there
3792-566: The United Kingdom, a pay review body is charged with making independent recommendations on rates of pay for groups of public sector staff. As of 2017, France had 5.6 million civil servants , amounting to 20% of all jobs in France. They are subdivided into three types: the State civil service ( Fonction publique d'État , FPE) includes teachers and soldiers, and employs 44% of the workforce. The local civil service ( Fonction publique territoriale ; FPT)
3871-703: The Volker Fund's patronage allowed Rothbard to work from home as a freelance theorist and pundit for the first 15 years of their marriage. The Volker Fund collapsed in 1962, leading Rothbard to seek employment from various New York academic institutions. He was offered a part-time position teaching economics to engineering students at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1966 at age 40. The institution had no economics department or economics majors and Rothbard derided its social science department as " Marxist ". Justin Raimondo , his biographer, writes that Rothbard liked teaching at Brooklyn Polytechnic because working only two days
3950-562: The application of the scientific method to economics and dismissed econometrics , empirical and statistical analysis and other tools of mainstream social science as outside the field (economic history might use those tools, but not Economics proper). He instead embraced praxeology , the strictly a priori methodology of Mises. Praxeology conceives of economic laws as akin to geometric or mathematical axioms : fixed, unchanging, objective and discernible through logical reasoning. According to Misesian economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe , eschewing
4029-530: The attention of the William Volker Fund , a group that provided financial backing to promote right-wing ideologies in the 1950s and early 1960s. The Volker Fund paid Rothbard to write a textbook to explain Human Action in a form that could be used to introduce college undergraduates to Mises's views; a sample chapter he wrote on money and credit won Mises's approval. For ten years, the Volker Fund paid him
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#17331337509764108-407: The citizenry. The former, who are public employees, are also part of the citizenry. Public roads , bridges , tunnels , water supply , sewers , electrical grids and telecommunication networks are among the public infrastructure. Rates of pay for public sector staff may be negotiated by employers and their staff or staff representatives such as trade unions . In some cases, for example in
4187-535: The concept continued to be called "equilibrium analysis". In a 2011 article critical of Rothbard's "reflexive opposition" to inflation, The Economist noted that his views were increasingly gaining influence among politicians and laypeople on the right. The article contrasted Rothbard's categorical rejection of inflationary policies with the monetary views of "sophisticated Austrian-school monetary economists such as George Selgin and Lawrence H. White ", [who] follow Hayek in treating stability of nominal spending as
4266-546: The free market. He called this principle " self-ownership ", loosely basing the idea on the writings of John Locke and also borrowing concepts from classical liberalism and the anti-imperialism of the Old Right . Rothbard accepted the labor theory of property , but rejected the Lockean proviso , arguing that if an individual mixes his labor with unowned land, then he becomes the proper owner eternally and that after that time it
4345-405: The heart of the egalitarian left is the pathological belief that there is no structure of reality; that all the world is a tabula rasa that can be changed at any moment in any desired direction by the mere exercise of human will." Noam Chomsky critiqued Rothbard's ideal society as "a world so full of hate that no human being would want to live in it ... First of all, it couldn't function for
4424-499: The house or apartment, as they checked in with each other. Murray thought it was the best possible way to start a day". Rothbard was irreligious and agnostic about God, describing himself as a "mixture of an agnostic and a Reform Jew ". Despite identifying as an agnostic and an atheist , he was critical of the "left-libertarian hostility to religion". In Rothbard's later years, many of his friends anticipated that he would convert to Catholicism but he never did. Rothbard died of
4503-483: The institute's Review of Austrian Economics , a heterodox economics journal later renamed the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics , in 1987. Rothbard "worked closely with Lew Rockwell (joined later by his long-time friend Blumert) in nurturing the Mises Institute, and the publication, The Rothbard-Rockwell Report ; which after Rothbard's 1995 death evolved into the website, LewRockwell.com ", according to
4582-552: The late 1940s, Rothbard considered whether a strict adherence to libertarian and laissez-faire principles required the abolition of the state altogether. He visited Baldy Harper , a founder of the Foundation for Economic Education , who doubted the need for any government whatsoever. Rothbard said that during this period, he was influenced by 19th-century American individualist anarchists like Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker and
4661-525: The left, and described equality as an evil concept. From 1969 to 1984, Rothbard edited The Libertarian Forum , also initially with Hess (although Hess's involvement ended in 1971). Despite its small readership, it engaged conservatives associated with the National Review in nationwide debate. Rothbard rejected the view that Ronald Reagan 's 1980 election as president was a victory for libertarian principles and he attacked Reagan's economic program in
4740-555: The power of the state. Rothbard befriended the Holocaust denier Harry Elmer Barnes in 1959. In a 1966 issue of Robert LeFevre 's Rampart Journal of Individualist Thought devoted to historical revisionism , Rothbard argued that western democracies had been to blame for starting World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Rothbard published works by Barnes in his journals before and after Barnes' death in 1968, including posthumously in
4819-416: The public sector, any shift of activities from the public to the private sphere, is a net moral and economic gain." American libertarians and anarcho-capitalists have also argued that the system by which the public sector is funded, namely taxation, is itself coercive and unjust . However, even notable small-government proponents have pushed back on this point of view, citing the ultimate necessity of
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#17331337509764898-559: The quasi-pacifist Nebraska Republican Congressman Howard Buffett (father of Warren Buffett ) then over to the League of (Adlai) Stevensonian Democrats and, by 1968, into tentative comradeship with the anarchist factions of the New Left ." Rothbard joined the Peace and Freedom Party and contributed writing to the New Left journal Ramparts . Rothbard later criticized the New Left for supporting
4977-594: The question of ethics. Specifically, he rejected Mises' conviction that ethical values remain subjective and opposed utilitarianism in favor of principle-based, natural law reasoning. In defense of his free market views, Mises employed utilitarian economic arguments aimed at demonstrating that interventionist policies made all of society worse off. Rothbard countered that interventionist policies do in fact benefit some people, including certain government employees and beneficiaries of social programs. Therefore, unlike Mises, Rothbard argued for an objective, natural-law basis for
5056-542: The scientific method and empiricism distinguishes the Misesian approach "from all other current economic schools", which dismiss the Misesian approach as "dogmatic and unscientific." Mark Skousen of Chapman University and the Foundation for Economic Education , a critic of mainstream economics, praises Rothbard as brilliant, his writing style persuasive, his economic arguments nuanced and logically rigorous and his Misesian methodology sound. But Skousen concedes that Rothbard
5135-429: The state monopoly on force ". In this way Rothbard differed from Mises, who favored a state to uphold markets. In an unpublished article, Rothbard wrote that economically speaking individualist anarchism is different from anarcho-capitalism, and jokingly pondered whether libertarians should adopt the term nonarchist. Rothbard concluded the article by affirming that he is neither an anarchist or an "archist" but rather
5214-476: The state; he believed that libertarians should adopt any moral tactic available to them to bring about liberty. Imbibing Randolph Bourne's idea that "war is the health of the state", Rothbard opposed all wars in his lifetime and engaged in anti-war activism. During the 1970s and 1980s, Rothbard was active in the Libertarian Party . He was frequently involved in the party's internal politics. Rothbard founded
5293-415: The term "wider public sector" is often used, referring to public sector organizations outside central government. The organization of the public sector can take several forms, including: A borderline form is as follows: Infrastructure includes areas that support both the public's members and the public sector itself. Streets and highways are used both by those who work for the public sector and also by
5372-491: The term evenly rotating economy (ERE) can be used to analyze complexity in a world of change. The words ERE had been introduced by Mises as an alternative nomenclature for the mainstream economic method of static equilibrium and general equilibrium analysis. Cowen and Fink found "serious inconsistencies in both the nature of the ERE and its suggested uses". With the sole exception of Rothbard, no other economist adopted Mises' term, and
5451-431: The time. During the 1940s, Rothbard vetted articles for Leonard Read at the Foundation for Economic Education think tank, became acquainted with Frank Chodorov , and read widely in libertarian-oriented works by Albert Jay Nock , Garet Garrett , Isabel Paterson , H. L. Mencken , and Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises . Rothbard was greatly influenced by reading Mises's book Human Action in 1949. In
5530-492: The website. Rothbard and other Mises Institute scholars criticized libertarian groups funded by the Koch brothers , referring to them as the "Kochtopus". In contrast to some other libertarian groups, the Mises Institute "pushed more politically marginal positions like the virtues of secession, the need for a return to the gold standard, and opposition to racial integration", according to historian Quinn Slobodian . Rothbard split with
5609-475: Was "nothing" in it that "could not also be embraced by paleoconservatives or paleolibertarians; lower taxes, dismantling the bureaucracy, slashing the welfare system, attacking affirmative action and racial set-asides, calling for equal rights for all Americans, including whites". He also praised the "racialist science" in Charles Murray's controversial book The Bell Curve . Rothbard co-founded and became
5688-531: Was a longtime friend of the Rothbards and their neighbor at their Manhattan apartment building. It was only after Burns went on leave from the Columbia faculty to head President Eisenhower 's Council of Economic Advisers that Rothbard's thesis was accepted and he received his doctorate. Rothbard later said that all his fellow students were extreme leftists and that he was one of only two Republicans at Columbia at
5767-482: Was an admirer of Senator Joseph McCarthy —not for McCarthy's Cold War views but for his demagoguery , which Rothbard credited for disrupting the establishment consensus of what Rothbard called "corporate liberalism". Rothbard contributed many articles to Buckley's National Review , but his relations with Buckley and the magazine soured as he criticized the conservative movement for militarism. Specifically, Rothbard opposed how such militarism could justify and expand
5846-403: Was effectively "outside the discipline" of mainstream economics and that his work "fell on deaf ears" outside his ideological circles. Rothbard wrote extensively on Austrian business cycle theory and as part of this approach strongly opposed central banking , fiat money and fractional-reserve banking , advocating a gold standard and a 100% reserve requirement for banks. Rothbard wrote
5925-407: Was eventually spun off, or self emancipated, for some deviation or another. For this reason, the circle around Rothbard was always small." Although he self-identified as an Austrian economist, Rothbard's methodology was at odds with that of many other Austrians. In 1956, Rothbard deprecated the views of Austrian economist Fritz Machlup , stating that Machlup was no praxeologist and calling him instead
6004-518: 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". Tony Endres called Rothbard's treatment of Smith a "travesty". Rothbard was equally scathing in his criticism of John Maynard Keynes , calling him weak on economic theory and a shallow political opportunist. Rothbard also wrote more generally that Keynesian-style governmental regulation of money and credit created
6083-433: Was mutating into an all-round faith in economic planning and the nation state". Joey Rothbard said in a memoriam that her husband had a happy and bright spirit, and that Rothbard, a night owl , "managed to make a living for 40 years without having to get up before noon. This was important to him." She said Rothbard would begin every day with a phone conversation with his colleague Lew Rockwell: "Gales of laughter would shake
6162-567: Was removed from Cato's board in 1981. Wasserman described the split as "the first of many examples of Austrian and libertarian schisms in the United States". In 1982, following his split with the Cato Institute, Rothbard co-founded the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama , (with Lew Rockwell and Burton Blumert ) and was vice president of academic affairs until 1995. Rothbard also founded
6241-545: Was trapped during a labor strike at the Tide Water Oil Refinery in New Jersey, which he managed, confirming their dislike of organized labor . Rothbard attended Columbia University , where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics in 1945 and a PhD in economics in 1956. His first political activism came in 1948, on behalf of the segregationist South Carolinian Strom Thurmond 's presidential campaign. In
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