Murray N. Rothbard

Introduction to the Third Edition America is now in the midst of a full-scale inflationary depression. The inflationary recession of 1969-71 has been quickly succeeded by a far more inflationary depression which began around November 1973, and skidded into a serious depression around the fall of...

PréfacéThis book emerges out of a comprehensive treatise on économies that I wrote several years ago, Man, Economy, and State (2 vols., Van Nostrand, 1962). That book was designed to offer an economic analysis of Crusoe économies, the free market, and of violent interventionempirically, by...

PrefaceOne of the unhappy casualties of World War I, it seems, was the old-fashioned treatise on economic "principles." Before World War I, the standard method, both of presenting and advancing economic thought, was to write a disquisition setting forth one's vision of the corpus of economic...