Murray N. Rothbard
Economist and political theorist
Murray N. Rothbard was an American economist and political theorist of the Austrian School. He was a leading thinker behind anarcho-capitalism.
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American Born 1926 in New York City, United States Died 1995
Influenced by Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas
About Murray N. Rothbard
Murray Newton Rothbard was born in the Bronx, New York, on March 2, 1926, and died on January 7, 1995. He worked as an economist, economic historian, political theorist and activist, and he wrote more than twenty books. He taught economics part-time at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute from 1966, and from 1986 he held a post at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In the 1970s he helped set up the Cato Institute and the Center for Libertarian Studies, and in 1982 he joined Lew Rockwell and Burton Blumert to found the Mises Institute in Alabama. His books include America's Great Depression, The Ethics of Liberty and Man, Economy, and State. For a New Liberty is also among his titles.