Ethics of Liberty
by ROTHBARD Murray
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1982. First Edition . Signed. ROTHBARD, Murray. The Ethics of Liberty. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, (1982). Octavo, original gilt-stamped navy cloth. $7200.First edition of Rothbard's ""second magnum opus
a pillar of the Rothbardian system"" in its bold pursuit of principles introduced in Man, Economy and State, inscribed in the year of publication by Rothbard, the father of libertarianism: ""To L & L F Warmest regards to two genuine and uncompromising radical (i.e. genuine) libertarians. Murray Rothbard.""""Following his revered teacher and mentor, Ludwig von Mises, Mises' teachers Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk and Carl Menger
Rothbard was one of those rare individuals who did contribute to ethics as well as economics."" Building on principles introduced in his first book, Man, Economy and State (1962), Ethics is a ""pillar of the Rothbardian system
his second magnum opus. In it, he explains the integration of economics and ethics via the joint concept of property
[and] deduces the corpus of libertarian law"" (Hoppe, Introduction, Ethics of Liberty, 1998). ""A scholar of liberty on a par with Mises and Hayek
Rothbard not only systematized and perfected the insights of Mises and his school of pure free-market economics, but also fought to establish an American beachhead for the Misesian schooland did it almost single-handedly"" (Raimondo, Enemy of the State, 20). ""In his masterful Ethics, Rothbard deals with the hard questions: the criminal system, land redistribution, the vexing problem of children's rights, bribery, boycotts, lifeboat situations
If he is an eminent historian, and the world's leading Austrian economist, he is no less than the father of libertarianism"" (Rockwell & Block, Man, Economy, and Liberty, xi- xviii). Ethics remains one of the discipline's most ""fundamental theories of justice
a defense of his entire intellectual edifice"" (Hamowy, Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, 442-43). ""Rothbard says that the very existence of the statethe entity with monopoly privilege to invade private propertyis contrary to the ethics of liberty"" (Mises Institute). He declares the state dangerously unique in its capacity to tax: ""Taxation is theft, purely and simply, even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale"" (162). As issued without dust jacket. A fine copy.
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- Title
- Ethics of Liberty
- Author
- ROTHBARD Murray
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- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1982
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