Mises's Human Action: Comment

Murray N. Rothbard

First published 1951

Mises's Human Action: Comment

by Murray N. Rothbard

American Economic Review , March 1951, pp. 181-185.5 pagesUpdated May 11, 2010

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Author: Murray N. Rothbard
First published: 1951
Format: PDF
Pages: 5
Publisher: American Economic Review , March 1951, pp. 181-185
License: Public domain: this work was published in the 1932-1963 window when US copyright had to be renewed after 28 years, and no renewal was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. Not independently confirmed.

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Who wrote Mises's Human Action: Comment?: 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. This archive holds 98 of Rothbard's works.

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Murray N. Rothbard 1926–1995

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. Read more about Murray N. Rothbard.

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Lectures that discuss Mises's Human Action: Comment

8 recorded talks in this archive name this book. The 6 that discuss it most, each linked to the moment it comes up:

Preface to Revised Edition

Murray N. Rothbard · Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market

… confounded, with resulting invasive forays of numerous other I think it is fair to say that with only a single exception, Ludwig von Mises' Human Action, not one The General Treatise on Economic Principles has appeared since World War I.

Hear it at 3:40
'America’s Great Depression' 50th Anniversary

John P. Cochran · Austrian Economics Research Conference 2013

… because and he's struggling with terms, that they tend to piggy bank or turbocharge events that Rothbard in that referred us to a note in Mises' Human Action that I think is really, really relevant for today's low interest rate.

Hear it at 4:27
Was Rothbard a Mainstream Economist?

Joseph T. Salerno · Austrian Scholars Conference 2009

And fortunately, people were reading Rothbard's treatise during the 60s, as well as Mises' Human Action.

Hear it at 12:24
Roundtable on the Semicentennial of Rothbard’s 'Man, Economy, and State'

Mises Institute · Austrian Scholars Conference 2012

… acknowledged place in the Austrian canon, but even some of the books admirers tend to regard it not so much as an original theoretical contribution, but as sort of a more systematic, more carefully exposited version of Mises' Human Action.

Hear it at 0:51
Objective and Subjective Value

Roderick T. Long · Foundations of Libertarian Ethics

In the economic one you've got Mises' Human Action, you've got Rothbard's Man Economy and State, works like that.

Hear it at 2:05
Free Markets: An Interview with David Gordon

David Gordon · Interviews

I read Mises' Human Action around that time also, but I didn't meet Murray Rothbard until 1979.

Hear it at 0:46