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Murray Rothbard

Rothbard in the early 1990s
Born Murray Newton Rothbard
(1926-03-02)March 2, 1926
Bronx, New York City
Died January 7, 1995(1995-01-07) (aged 68)
New York City, U.S.

Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American heterodox economist of the Austrian School,[1] economic historian[2][3] and political theorist.[4] Rothbard was a founder and leading theoretician of anarcho-capitalism, a staunch advocate of historical revisionism and a central figure in the 20th-century American libertarian movement. He wrote over twenty books on political theory, revisionist history, economics, and other subjects.[5]

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  1. Lewis, David Charles (2006). "Rothbard, Murray Newton (1926–1995)". In Ross Emmett. Biographical Dictionary of American Economists. Thoemmes. ISBN 978-1-84371112-4.
  2. Bessner, Daniel (December 8, 2014). "Murray Rothbard, political strategy, and the making of modern libertarianism". Intellectual History Review 24 (4): pp. 441–456.
  3. Matthews, Peter Hans; Ortmann, Andreas (July 2002). "An Austrian (Mis)Reads Adam Smith: A critique of Rothbard as intellectual historian". Review of Political Economy 14 (3): pp. 379–392.
  4. Raimondo, Justin (2000). An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1-61592-239-0. OCLC 43541222.
  5. Doherty, Brian (2008). "Rothbard, Murray (1926–1995)". In Hamowy, Ronald. The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. pp. 10, 441–43. ISBN 978-1-4129-6580-4. OCLC 233969448.