FOLIO I · DENKER
Murray N. Rothbard in audio: the life, the one idea, the most famous argument, and which work to read first. About 15 minutes.
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Earned a B.A. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in economics at Columbia University.
After reading Mises's <em>Human Action</em>, he began attending the private seminar at NYU regularly in 1949; he remained active into the 1970s. bio_de names the 1950s as the central period.[1]
From the 1950s until 1962 as a “senior analyst” with a research grant from the William Volker Fund — the financial basis for Rothbard's early major works.[1]
Married JoAnn Beatrice Schumacher in New York City in 1953; she remained his life partner until Rothbard's death in 1995.[6]
Received his doctorate in 1956 with the dissertation “The Panic of 1819” at Columbia University. The work had been delayed for years — Arthur Burns rejected it; only after Burns had left the Columbia faculty to chair Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers was it accepted under Joseph Dorfman.[1]
Publication of the two-volume early work <em>Man, Economy, and State</em>, in which Rothbard further developed Mises's approaches in monetary theory, the theory of monopoly, and the theory of capital and interest.[1]
Publication of <em>America's Great Depression</em>. Rothbard set out how the inflation of the 'Roaring Twenties' led to the stock market crash of 1929, and contested the Keynesian interpretation.[1]
A pamphlet-like work on monetary history and state intervention in the monetary system; one of the most influential pleas for the gold standard in the second half of the 20th century.[1]
Professor at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute from 1966 to 1986.[1]
A major libertarian manifesto; it outlines a systematic anarcho-capitalist social order.[1]
Co-founder of the Center for Libertarian Studies, a libertarian research and lecture organisation.[3]
Co-founder of the Cato Institute together with Charles Koch and Edward Crane; later a break with the Cato Institute. In the same year, founding of the “Journal of Libertarian Studies”.[1]
Co-founder of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama; as Academic Vice-President, the central academic figure of the institute until his death.[1]
Professor at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas from 1986 to 1995.[1]
Publication of the two-volume work on the history of economic doctrine, presenting a comprehensive history of economic theory from the perspective of the Austrians.[1]
Regarded as perhaps the most important Mises student in the New World; Rothbard deepened his teacher's approaches especially in the theory of money, monopoly, capital and interest.[1]
Doctoral advisor at Columbia University: after Burns's move to Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers, the dissertation “The Panic of 1819” was accepted in 1956 under Joseph Dorfman.[1]
Originally the doctoral advisor at Columbia, he rejected the dissertation “The Panic of 1819” for years; a family acquaintance of the Rothbards. Only after Burns moved to Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers (1953) could the doctorate be completed.[5]
Intellectual antipode to Milton Friedman: Rothbard as a radical-libertarian Austrian counter-model to the monetarist Chicago School, with numerous public debates on monetary, central-bank and business-cycle policy.[1]
Hoppe went to the USA for the purpose of study and became a long-standing student of Murray N. Rothbard; he eventually took over his chair at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.[2]
Samuel Edward Konkin III wird in der Wikipedia-EN-Infobox als „notable student" Rothbards aufgeführt; sein Agorismus baut explizit auf Rothbards anarchokapitalistischem Ansatz auf.[5]
Walter Block wird in der Wikipedia-EN-Infobox als „notable student" Rothbards geführt; sein Werk steht ausdruecklich in der Rothbard-Tradition.[5]
Participant in the Mises-Privatseminar at NYU from 1949 to the end of the 1950s, with activity into the 1970s.[1]
William Volker Fund förderte Rothbard über zehn Jahre als Senior Analyst und Stipendiat — die finanzielle Basis seiner frühen Hauptwerke.[1]
Co-founder, with Charles Koch and Edward Crane, of the Cato Institute in 1977; break in 1981.[3]
Co-founder of the Cato Institute in 1977 together with Edward Crane and Charles Koch; break in 1981 (Rothbard was removed from the board).[4]
Garrison war über Jahrzehnte Adjunct Scholar am Mises Institute und teilte mit Rothbard die Verteidigung der Mises-Hayek-Konjunkturtheorie.
Mit Lew Rockwell Mitbegründer des Ludwig von Mises Institute (Auburn, Alabama) 1982; Rockwell wird in mises.org/profile als „Institutsgründer" und akademischer Weggefaehrte Rothbards bis zu dessen Tod geführt.[1]
From 1986 Hoppe and Rothbard worked together at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; after Rothbard's death in 1995 Hoppe took over his chair.
Murray N. Rothbard in the context of the School as a whole — five generations, their teacher-student lineages, circles and collegial ties.
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