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Rothbard on Taxation

"Taxation is theft, purely and simply, even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could

Rothbard on America’s Economic War against Cuba

No one opposed communism more than Murray Rothbard, but he also recognized that US policy toward Cuba was unjust, self-defeating, and would

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt: The 2025 Nobel Winners in Economics

By honoring Mokyr, Aghion, and Howitt, the Nobel Committee has recognized that the future of growth depends on innovation, and that innovation

“The Public Be Damned”

So uttered the famous phrase from William H. Vanderbilt, which was interpreted to mean that the capitalists didn’t care for their customers.

Rothbard, Populism, and the Elites

Newly discovered letters show that Rothbard was a populist as early as the 1950s, and his alleged turn to populism in the