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Murray N. Rothbard lived 1926 to 1995.

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Murray N. Rothbard

1926–1995

Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) is represented at freecapitalists.org by 95 books and 752 lectures, free to download or stream.

Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was an American economist, economic historian, and libertarian political philosopher, and perhaps Ludwig von Mises’s most important American student, attending Mises’s NYU seminar in the 1950s. He earned a B.A. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in economics at Columbia University and taught at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (1966–1986) and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1986–1995). His Man, Economy, and State (1962) extended Austrian monetary, monopoly, and capital theory, and America’s Great Depression (1963) argued that 1920s monetary inflation, not free markets, caused the 1929 crash. He wrote more than a thousand articles and 25 books, including works on political philosophy, and became a leading figure of the libertarian movement.

Further reading: Murray Rothbard on The Austrian Economics Wiki.

Works in the archive

Lectures and courses

752 lectures across 41 courses.

Cover of 20th Century American Economic History

20th Century American Economic History 8 lectures

A History of Money and Banking in the United States Before the Twentieth Century 64 lectures

Anatomy of the State 1 lecture

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Austrian Economics An Introduction 4 lectures

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Austrian Economics and Investing 1 lecture

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An Investor's Introduction to Austrian Economics36:33

Austrian Theory 16 lectures

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Capitol Hill Conference on the Gold Standard 1 lecture

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The Gold Standard Before the Civil War1:03:27

Classical Economics 25 lectures

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Conceived in Liberty, Volume I 66 lectures

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Conceived in Liberty, Volume II 43 lectures

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Conceived in Liberty, Volume III 72 lectures

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Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV 81 lectures

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Defending the Undefendable 1 lecture

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Foreword6:47

Economic Depressions Their Cause and Cure 1 lecture

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Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure42:59

Economic Policy 3 lectures

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Economic Thought Before Adam Smith 29 lectures

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Economics 101 9 lectures

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Mises in One Lesson1:00:22
Demand and Supply, Consumer Goods, Prices and Exchange53:10
Money and Prices55:38
Banking and the Business Cycle1:38:38
Capital, Interest, and Profit54:40
Labor51:00
Labor and Unions51:53
Conservation and Property Rights54:49
The Future of Austrian Economics48:06

For a New Liberty 15 lectures

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1. The Libertarian Heritage: The American Revolution and Classical Liberalism59:22
2. The Libertarian Creed: Property and Exchange1:10:29
3. The State1:14:53
4. Libertarian Applications to Current Problems: The Problems17:02
5. Involuntary Servitude43:02
6. Personal Liberty1:13:03
7. Education1:06:59
8. Welfare and the Welfare State1:24:23
9. Inflation and the Business Cycle: The Collapse of the Keynesian Paradigm1:13:05
10. The Public Sector, I: Government in Business18:46
11. The Public Sector, II: Streets and Roads37:12
12. The Public Sector, III: Police, Law, and the Courts1:20:34
13. Conservation, Ecology, and Growth59:00
14. War and Foreign Policy1:34:46
15. A Strategy for Liberty1:15:37

Individual Lectures 10 lectures

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Ludwig von Mises as a Laissez-faire Radical: The Quest for the Historical Mises4:07
Contributions of James Mill: Leader of the Philisophical Radical Movement54:17
Chicago Economics v. Austrian Economics42:50
The Current State of World Affairs1:22:08
Man, Economy and Liberty28:46
On Milton Friedman1:13:22
Regulation49:36
Libertarianism1:20:02
The Meaning of Ludwig von Mises55:47
The Polish Disease1:33:35

Introduction to Economics A Private Seminar with Murray N Rothbard 7 lectures

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Introduction to Microeconomics 14 lectures

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Intro to Micro: Demand and Supply1:01:52
Value35:00
The Determination of Prices1:10:58
Price Controls in the Oil Industry1:07:58
Minimum Price Controls43:24
Government Licensing of Industry and Minimum Wage1:01:57
Mid-Term Review and The Theory of the Firm1:16:49
The Firm52:31
Monopoly and Competition56:17
Government Cartels58:23
The Structure of Production59:12
Labor and Unions1:27:39
The Labor Market33:58
Interest Rates and Course Review1:01:42

Keynes and Keynesianism 1 lecture

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Keynes the Man: Hero or Villain?40:24

Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty 1 lecture

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Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty1:15:24

Ludwig von Mises in One Lesson 6 lectures

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Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market 134 lectures

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Money and the Federal Reserve 1 lecture

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The Fed and the Power Eilte1:06:00

Murray N Rothbard Audiobooks 1 lecture

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Anatomy of the State

Seminar on Money and Government 1 lecture

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The Founding of The Federal Reserve1:04:59

The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire 1870 to World War II 13 lectures

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The Civil War and Its Legacy1:55:16
The Railroading of the American People1:32:39
The Decline of Laissez-Faire2:04:09
The Rise and Fall of Monopolies2:03:36
Pietism and the Power Brokers2:13:18
Tariffs, Inflation, Anti-Trust and Cartels1:47:31
Theodore Roosevelt: Master Reformer1:02:34
Regulation and Public Utilities2:00:57
The Progressive Era?1:27:47
Cartelization of Banking: The Fed1:27:48
Woodrow Wilson and World War I1:27:45
The Great Cooperation1:29:11
Politics and the Power Elite52:28

The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle 1 lecture

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Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure43:47

The Business Cycle 24 lectures

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The Case Against the Fed 25 lectures

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The Costs of War 1 lecture

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Two Just Wars: 1776 and 186150:09

The Economics of Fascism 1 lecture

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Duplicate: [136] "Praxeology as the Method of the Social Sciences"

The Ethics of Liberty 31 lectures

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Preface8:12
1. Natural Law and Reason12:15
2. Natural Law as 'Science'17:01
3. Natural Law versus Positive Law7:29
4. Natural Law and Natural Rights10:39
5. The Task of Political Philosophy4:06
6. A Crusoe Social Philosophy20:11
7. Interpersonal Relations: Voluntary Exchange30:13
8. Interpersonal Relations: Ownership and Aggression19:54
9. Property and Criminality35:16
10. The Problem of Land Theft14:38
11. Land Monopoly, Past and Present19:29
12. Self-Defense23:03
13. Punishment and Proportionality33:32
14. Children and Rights42:56
15. "Human Rights" as Property Rights22:49
16. Knowledge, True and False23:25
17. Bribery5:38
18. The Boycott5:36
19. Property Rights and the Theory of Contracts48:38
20. Lifeboat Situations16:34
21. The "Rights" of Animals6:13
22. The Nature of the State41:23
23. The Inner Contradictions of the State24:07
24. The Moral Status of Relations to the State16:49
25. On Relations Between States29:40
26. Utilitarian Free-Market Economics42:47
27. Isaiah Berlin on Negative Freedom9:08
28. F.A. Hayek and The Concept of Coercion30:26
29. Robert Nozick and the Immaculate Conception of the State1:08:45
30. Toward a Theory of Strategy for Liberty57:14

The History of Economic Thought 15 lectures

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The History of Economic Thought From Marx to Hayek 6 lectures

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Ideology and Theories of History1:06:35
The Emergence of Communism1:11:48
The Pre-Austrians1:11:56
Menger and Böhm-Bawerk1:11:38
Mises and Austrian Economics56:39
Hayek and His Lamentable Contemporaries1:07:47

The Politics of Obedience The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude 2 lectures

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The Roots of the Fed 10 lectures

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Theory and History 1 lecture

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Preface15:52

What Has Government Done to Our Money 6 lectures

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I. Introduction3:35
II. Money in a Free Society1:18:10
III. Government Meddling With Money1:06:03
IV. The Monetary Breakdown of the West44:13
The Case for a 100% Gold Dollar, Part 152:52
The Case for a 100% Gold Dollar, Part 253:34

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Murray N. Rothbard quotations

8 quotations from Murray N. Rothbard on Quotes from the Liberty Archive, this archive's quote companion. Every one is matched word for word to the archive's own copy of the work it comes from.

“All action is an attempt to exchange a less satisfactory state of affairs for a more satisfactory one.”

Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market · See the passage it comes from →
“Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human.”

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“The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism; there is no better way to stifle that criticism than to attack any isolated voice, any raiser of new doubts, as a profane violator of the wisdom of his ancestors.”

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About Murray N. Rothbard

What by Murray N. Rothbard can I read free here?: This archive holds 95 books and 752 lectures by Murray N. Rothbard, all free to read, download or stream with no signup.
What is Murray N. Rothbard known for?: Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was an American economist, economic historian, and libertarian political philosopher, and perhaps Ludwig von Mises’s most important American student, attending Mises’s NYU seminar in the 1950s. He earned a B.A. in mathematics and a Ph.D.
When did Murray N. Rothbard live?: Murray N. Rothbard lived 1926 to 1995.
Are there recorded lectures by Murray N. Rothbard?: Yes. 752 recordings across 41 series, free to stream or download.

Murray N. Rothbard

Works in the archive

Making Economic Sense

History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II

For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

America's Great Depression

The Progressive Era

The Irrepressible Rothbard

Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market

Conceived in Liberty

The Ethics of Liberty

Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays

Economic Controversies

The Essential von Mises

What Has Government Done to Our Money?

Anatomy of the State

The Betrayal of the American Right

The Origins of the Federal Reserve

Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure

The Austrian Theory of Money

The Case Against the Fed

Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty

Science, Technology, and Government

The Mystery of Banking

The Mises We Never Knew

Praxeology, Value Judgments, and Public Policy

The New Banner Interview with Murray N. Rothbard

Keynes the Man

Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

Economics Depressions: Their Cause and Cure

Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics

War, Peace, and the State

A New History of Leviathan

Protectionism and the Destruction of Prosperity

The Transformation of the American Right

Austrian Definitions of the Supply of Money

Education: Free and Compulsory

Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 10

Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 3

The Political Thought of Étienne de la Boétie

The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies

Review of Austrian Economics, Full Collection

Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 2

Ludwig von Mises: Scholar, Creator, Hero

The Politics of Political Economists

The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar

Keynes, the Man

Praxeology: Reply to Mr. Schuller.

Power and Market: Government and the Economy

Defense of Extreme Apriorism, In

Foreword to The Theory of Money and Credit by Mises

The Mantle of Science

Mises and the Role of the Economist in Public Policy

Mises's Human Action: Comment

A Note on Burke's Vindication of the Natural Society

Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 4

Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 6

The Single Tax: Economic and Moral Implications" and "A Reply to Georgist Criticisms

Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism, and the Division of Labor

Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 1

Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I

The Myth of Efficiency

The Myth of Neutral Taxation

The Present State of Austrian Economics

Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy

War Collectivism

War Collectivism in World War I

The Case Against the Flat Tax

The Case for a Genuine Gold Dollar

Classical Economics: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II

Complete Libertarian Forum (1969-1984)

Ethics and Capitalism, Part I, Catholicism

The Fallacy of the 'Public Sector'

The Federal Reserve as a Cartelization Device

Frank S. Meyer: The Fusionist as Libertarian Manqué

The Gasoline Tax

George Orwell and the Cold War: A Reconsideration

Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution

Ludwig von Mises and the Paradigm for Our Age

Lysander Spooner: Libertarian Pietist