Picture an anarchist. Right away you will conjure up a vision of some red-mohawked terror wearing fraying black skinny jeans, a leather jacket with the logo of some terrible indie band safety-pinned to its back, and garish facial piercings. He’s preparing to throw a Molotov cocktail at a Tires Plus, the ultimate symbol of The System.
You wouldn’t picture Murray Rothbard, an ebullient Austrian School economist wearing a smile and a dandy bowtie. The founder of anarcho-capitalism spread his ideals through books and lectures rather than crudely fashioned incendiary devices, and we salute him for it.
Rothbard’s economic theories are uniquely accessible. Rather than smash readers in the face with wall after wall of statistical analyses, the New Yorker presented series of intuitive axioms which, if followed, lead to a stark conclusion: Our country needs a massive and opaque government about as much as a Tires Plus needs something hurled through its window. Continue reading “Murray Rothbard: New Design + Quotes on Libertarianism, Economics, and Freedom”
