Murray Rothbard

Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard
Era	20th-century Economists (Austrian Economics)
Region	Western Economists
School	Austrian economics
Main interests	Economics, Political economy, Anarchism, Natural law, Praxeology, Numismatics, Philosophy of law, Ethics, Economic history
Notable ideas	Founder of Anarcho-capitalism, Rothbard's law, largely influenced Agorism
Influences Aristotle, Aquinas, Mises, Menger, Böhm-Bawerk, Molinari, Hayek, Say, Spooner, Tucker, Bastiat, Spencer, Nock, Oppenheimer, Locke, Laozi, Mencken, Burke
Influenced Hoppe, Friedman, Rockwell, Konkin, Narveson, Heath, Callahan, Raico, Salerno, Sobran, McElroy, Tucker, Bylund, Long, Caplan, Murphy, Lottieri, Woods, Kinsella, Nozick, Molyneux, Thornton, Horton, Hülsmann, Raimondo, DiLorenzo, Block, Linda & Morris Tannehill, Paul, Robert Higgs

Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist and writer. He helped make the Austrian School of economics popular in the United States.

Rothbard helped to create modern libertarianism, a political belief in less government and more personal freedom. He founded a form of free-market anarchism which he called "anarcho-capitalism".^[1][2] Rothbard believed society should organise itself, and he didn't like central planning.^[3]

Rothbard wrote over twenty books and was an important central figure in the American libertarian movement.^[4]

1. ↑ Miller, David, ed. (1991). Blackwell encyclopaedia of political thought. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 0-631-17944-5.
2. ↑ Wendy McElroy. "Murray N. Rothbard: Mr. Libertarian". Lew Rockwell. July 6, 2000. Archived from the original on August 3, 2006. Retrieved October 17, 2008.
3. ↑ Noce, Jaime E. & Miskelly, Matthew 2002. Anarchism: political theories for students. Gale. p7
4. ↑ Ronald Hamowy, Editor, The encyclopedia of libertarianism, p 441.