History of the Austrian School of Economics

While Adam Smith has played an important historical role in the development of economic thought, as Murray Rothbard pointed out, he hardly is the original apostle of laissez-faire economics.

Mainstream economics has deliberately abandoned the history of economic thought. Austrian economists must keep teaching and re-teaching the great debates of the past.

Jesús Huerta de Soto traces the Austrian school's intellectual roots from the Spanish scholastics to Rothbard, making the case that anarcho-capitalism is the natural endpoint of the classical liberal tradition.

As we continue to celebrate the centennial of the birth of Murray Rothbard, Wanjiru Njoya reminds us that he never compromised his principles and stood for liberty throughout his all-too-brief life.

As we continue to celebrate the centennial of the birth of Murray Rothbard, Wanjiru Njoya reminds us that he never compromised his principles and stood for liberty throughout his all-too-brief life.

We continue celebrating the centennial of the birth of Murray Rothbard, one of the greatest economists of the 20th Century and the Dean of the Austrian School of Economics.

John Maynard Keynes’s General Theory was the “Bible” of economics and Roger was the devil’s advocate.

The revival of Austrian economics had roots in the Circle Bastiat group that met in New York City in the 1950s, among them Murray Rothbard and Ralph Raico.

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon honors the centennial of Murray Rothbard’s birth, recalling his memories of conversations and discussions with the man who was knowledgeable on a wide range of topics—and was never a boring companion.

Murray Rothbard was born 100 years ago this week and his time on earth was much too short. Yet in that time he was here, he added much to the intellectual foundations of economic thinking.