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Rights may be universal, but their enforcement must be local.
Two Just Wars: 1776 and 1861 (1994)
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.
The natural tendency of the state is inflation.
The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar (1974)
Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs.
Consequently, both the communist and the individualist wings of anarchism have drawn sustenance from this work.
The problem is that he originated nothing that was true, and that whatever he originated was wrong.
An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995)
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.
The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.
There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.
Interview with Murray N. Rothbard : The Austrian Economics Newsletter (1990)
Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.
Egalitarianism and the Elites (1995)
A less conservative work could hardly be imagined; in fact, Burke’s Vindication was perhaps the first modern expression of rationalistic and individualistic anarchism.
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.
It is the state that is robbing all classes, rich and poor, black and white alike; it is the state that is ripping us all off; it is the state that is the common enemy of mankind.
It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.
The Death Wish of the Anarcho-Communists (1970)
Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.
What Has Government Done to Our Money? (1980)
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.
What Has Government Done to Our Money? (1980)
It doesn't matter what the supply of money is.
What Has Government Done to Our Money? (1980)
Freedom can run a monetary system as superbly as it runs the rest of the economy. Contrary to many writers, there is nothing special about money that requires extensive governmental dictation.
What Has Government Done to Our Money? (1980)
John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.
An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995)
[O]ften, only extremists' make sense, while eclectics and moderates are entangled in contradictions.