First published 1963
War, Peace, and the State
War, Peace, and the State by Murray N. Rothbard is available as a free PDF, EPUB, Kindle, and HTML download at freecapitalists.org.
- Murray N. Rothbard
- First published
- 1963
- Format
- PDF, EPUB, Kindle, and HTML
- Pages
- 10
- 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.
The state & socialism War & foreign policy
Murray N. Rothbard's classic essay on the subject of war from a Libertarian perspective. There is not a very good copy of it anywhere on the internet (except at Mises.org), so I pulled the text into a word processor, and reworked the fonts and footnotes. This pdf version is optimized for viewing on an iPad or other mobile reading device.
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- Is War, Peace, and the State free to download?
- Yes. The complete 10-page PDF, EPUB, Kindle, and HTML downloads directly from this page (50.2 KB). There is no signup, no account and no paywall.
- How long is War, Peace, and the State?
- 10 pages, 1 chapters, and about 5,667 words in the edition this archive serves.
- Is War, Peace, and the State in the public domain?
- Believed so. US works published between 1932 and 1963 kept copyright past 28 years only if someone filed a renewal, and no renewal for this work was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. That is a search result rather than a legal opinion: a renewal filed under a shortened title or a different claimant would not have been found. Some copies carry a rights notice, which records the original claim and does not extend a term that lapsed.
- Who wrote War, Peace, and the State?
- 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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1 chapter · 5,667 words
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Lectures that discuss War, Peace, and the State
Recorded talks in this archive that name this book, each linked to the moment it comes up:
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States, Sovereignty, and History
So almost in response to that, Rothbard wrote the War Peace and the State Essay, which wasn't what they had in mind that libertarians should be doing.
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But his essay, War, Peace and the State, is one of the life-changing, mind-changing essays that Rothbard wrote The Theory of Money makes you understand, think about what war actually is, forget about the songs and the parades and the …
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Mr. Libertarian, Murray N. Rothbard
… and a few of the seminal Rothbard essays, Left and Right, The Anatomy of the State, and War, Peace and the State, and you're swept away, not only by the sheer reading Rothbard, you have the sense that he's looking …
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Robert Anson Heinlein (1907–1988)
As Murray Rothbard explained in his classic essay War, Peace and the State, published in 1963, five years after the publication of Heinlein's fatuous polemic, suppose Jones finds that he or his property is being invaded, aggressed against by Smith.
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So Rothbard wrote an essay called War, Peace and the State.
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