10 Economists Everyone Should Know About
Murray Rothbard (1926-1995)
A seminal figure in the development of modern libertarianism and viewed by many as the father of anarcho-capitalism, Murray Rothbard was a born and raised New Yorker who appears to have taken Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” as a guiding principle. Beginning in his earliest days in academia, Rothbard fully embraced the teaching of Mises and spent his life expanding and promoting Mises’s ideas. Rejecting to publish in academic journals has left Rothbard with a cultish following and lack of respect among “true” economists, but his works Man, Economy and State (1962), For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (1973) and The Ethics of Liberty(1982) should be required reading for anyone who wishes to consider themselves to be well rounded.
