Murray N. Rothbard citations

Murray Newton Rothbard est un économiste et un philosophe politique américain, théoricien de l’école autrichienne d'économie , du libertarianisme et de l’anarcho-capitalisme.

L'ambition de Rothbard était d'élaborer un système théorique complet : c'est ainsi que son œuvre, composée d'une vingtaine d'ouvrages et de nombreux articles, explore à la fois les champs de l'économie, de la philosophie politique et de l'Histoire.

En tant que philosophe politique, Murray Rothbard a développé dans L'Éthique de la Liberté la théorie de l'anarcho-capitalisme fondée sur le droit naturel. En tant que théoricien de l'économie , il s'est servi de la praxéologie, théorie de l'action humaine de Ludwig von Mises pour exposer le fonctionnement d'un marché sans aucune intervention étatique et élaborer une réfutation des rationalisations courantes de l'intervention étatique. Ses travaux en histoire couvrent l'histoire politique , économique et l'histoire de la pensée économique .

Ses incursions dans la politique pratique se sont caractérisées par la recherche d'alliés aux franges de la société politique américaine, la "nouvelle gauche" dans les années 1970 , la droite conservatrice dans les années 1980.

Très influencé par le courant de la Old Right américaine, il a défendu toute sa vie l'isolationnisme en politique étrangère, et fut un critique farouche de l'interventionnisme militaire des États-Unis.

L'influence de Rothbard fut considérable sur le mouvement libertarien en général. Il est un des principaux théoriciens de l'anarcho-capitalisme, et sa conception jusnaturaliste du libertarianisme est largement reprise par les libertariens contemporains. En économie, son magnum opus Man, Economy and State est considéré comme l'ouvrage le plus important de l'école autrichienne avec Human Action de Ludwig von Mises,,. Malgré le nom de celui-ci, Rothbard est la référence théorique principale de l'Institut Ludwig von Mises. Hans-Hermann Hoppe, qui avait repris sa chaire comme professeur d'économie à l'Université de Las Vegas, est son successeur direct et revendiqué. Wikipedia  

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Murray N. Rothbard Citations

Murray N. Rothbard: Citations en anglais

“There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.”

"Interview with Murray N. Rothbard : The Austrian Economics Newsletter" (1990) http://mises.org/journals/aen/aen11_2_1.asp.

“All interstate wars intensify aggression – maximize it”

As quoted in an interview in Reason magazine (February 1973) http://www.antiwar.com/orig/rothbard_on_war.html.
Contexte: All interstate wars intensify aggression – maximize it … some wars are even more unjust than others. In other words, all government wars are unjust, although some governments have less unjust claims…

“I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.”

"Society Without A State" in The Libertarian Forum (1975) http://www.mises.org/journals/lf/1975/1975_01.pdf.
Contexte: I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.

“A less conservative work could hardly be imagined; in fact, Burke’s Vindication was perhaps the first modern expression of rationalistic and individualistic anarchism.”

"Edmund Burke, Anarchist" http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard11.html, first published as "A Note on Burke’s Vindication of Natural Society" in the Journal of the History of Ideas, 19, 1 (January 1958), p. 114.
Contexte: In 1756 Edmund Burke published his first work: Vindication of Natural Society. Curiously enough it has been almost completely ignored in the current Burke revival. This work contrasts sharply with Burke’s other writings, for it is hardly in keeping with the current image of the Father of the New Conservatism. A less conservative work could hardly be imagined; in fact, Burke’s Vindication was perhaps the first modern expression of rationalistic and individualistic anarchism. … "Anarchism" is an extreme term, but no other can adequately describe Burke’s thesis. Again and again, he emphatically denounces any and all government, and not just specific forms of government. … All government, Burke adds, is founded on one "grand error." It was observed that men sometimes commit violence against one another, and that it is therefore necessary to guard against such violence. As a result, men appoint governors among them. But who is to defend the people against the governors? … The anarchism of Burke’s Vindication is negative, rather than positive. It consists of an attack on the State rather than a positive blueprint of the type of society which Burke would regard as ideal. Consequently, both the communist and the individualist wings of anarchism have drawn sustenance from this work.

“Consequently, both the communist and the individualist wings of anarchism have drawn sustenance from this work.”

"Edmund Burke, Anarchist" http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard11.html, first published as "A Note on Burke’s Vindication of Natural Society" in the Journal of the History of Ideas, 19, 1 (January 1958), p. 114.
Contexte: In 1756 Edmund Burke published his first work: Vindication of Natural Society. Curiously enough it has been almost completely ignored in the current Burke revival. This work contrasts sharply with Burke’s other writings, for it is hardly in keeping with the current image of the Father of the New Conservatism. A less conservative work could hardly be imagined; in fact, Burke’s Vindication was perhaps the first modern expression of rationalistic and individualistic anarchism. … "Anarchism" is an extreme term, but no other can adequately describe Burke’s thesis. Again and again, he emphatically denounces any and all government, and not just specific forms of government. … All government, Burke adds, is founded on one "grand error." It was observed that men sometimes commit violence against one another, and that it is therefore necessary to guard against such violence. As a result, men appoint governors among them. But who is to defend the people against the governors? … The anarchism of Burke’s Vindication is negative, rather than positive. It consists of an attack on the State rather than a positive blueprint of the type of society which Burke would regard as ideal. Consequently, both the communist and the individualist wings of anarchism have drawn sustenance from this work.

“In 1756 Edmund Burke published his first work: Vindication of Natural Society. Curiously enough it has been almost completely ignored in the current Burke revival.”

"Edmund Burke, Anarchist" http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard11.html, first published as "A Note on Burke’s Vindication of Natural Society" in the Journal of the History of Ideas, 19, 1 (January 1958), p. 114.
Contexte: In 1756 Edmund Burke published his first work: Vindication of Natural Society. Curiously enough it has been almost completely ignored in the current Burke revival. This work contrasts sharply with Burke’s other writings, for it is hardly in keeping with the current image of the Father of the New Conservatism. A less conservative work could hardly be imagined; in fact, Burke’s Vindication was perhaps the first modern expression of rationalistic and individualistic anarchism. … "Anarchism" is an extreme term, but no other can adequately describe Burke’s thesis. Again and again, he emphatically denounces any and all government, and not just specific forms of government. … All government, Burke adds, is founded on one "grand error." It was observed that men sometimes commit violence against one another, and that it is therefore necessary to guard against such violence. As a result, men appoint governors among them. But who is to defend the people against the governors? … The anarchism of Burke’s Vindication is negative, rather than positive. It consists of an attack on the State rather than a positive blueprint of the type of society which Burke would regard as ideal. Consequently, both the communist and the individualist wings of anarchism have drawn sustenance from this work.

“Inflation may be defined as any increase in the economy's supply of money not consisting of an increase in the stock of the money metal.”

Murray N. Rothbard livre What Has Government Done to Our Money?

What Has Government Done to Our Money? (1980)

“Rights may be universal, but their enforcement must be local.”

Two Just Wars: 1776 and 1861 (1994) http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard20.html.

“Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs.”

A Cost/Benefit Analysis of the Human Spirit : The Luddites Revisited (15 March 2003) http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer39.html.

“The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.”

As quoted in "An intellectual Autobiography" by Bryan Kaplan, in I Chose Liberty : Autobiographies of Contemporary Libertarians (2010) edited by Walter Block, p. 75.

“John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.”

Murray N. Rothbard livre An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995)

“It doesn't matter what the supply of money is.”

Murray N. Rothbard livre What Has Government Done to Our Money?

What Has Government Done to Our Money? (1980)

“The problem is that he originated nothing that was true, and that whatever he originated was wrong.”

Murray N. Rothbard livre An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

On Adam Smith.
An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995)

“This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting.”

from an audio tape of Rothbard's 1986 lecture "Tariffs, Inflation, Anti-Trust and Cartels" [53:47 to 53:55 of 1:47:29], part of the Mises Institute audio lecture series "The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire: 1870 to World War II").

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