Audio book version of Murray N. Rothbard's classic 'Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I.' Read by Jeff Riggenbach. http://mises.org
In Economic Thought Before Adam Smith, Murray Rothbard traces economic ideas from ancient sources to show that laissez-faire liberalism and economic thought itself began with the scholastics and early Roman, Greek, and canon law. He celebrates Aristotle and Democritus, for example, but loathes Plato and Diogenes. He is kind toward Taoism and Stoicism. He is no fan of Tertullian but very much likes St. Jerome, who defended the merchant class. Now, that takes us only to page 33, just the beginning of a wild ride through the middle ages and renaissance and modern times through 1870.
Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was America's greatest radical libertarian author -- writing authoritatively about ethics, philosophy, economics, American history, and the history of ideas. He presented the most fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of government, and he refined thinking about the self-ownership and non-coercion principles.
Biography of Murray N. Rothbard
http://mises.org/about/3249
Read 'Economic Thought Before Adam Smith' online:
http://mises.org/resources/3985
Links to more online books and essays by Murray N. Rothbard:
Classical Economics: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II
http://mises.org/resources/3986
Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=08BADEE86CA3F02F
The Ethics of Liberty
http://mises.org/resources/1179
Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FEB9E9039A49E57C
For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
http://mises.org/resources/1010
Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BD6EC8BF3D7777F3
The Case Against the Fed
http://mises.org/resources/3430
Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F1FDA55FD094AAE1
What Has Government Done to Our Money?
http://mises.org/resources/617
Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=85F528FA4B8DB51D
A History of Money and Banking in the United States Before the Twentieth Century
http://mises.org/resources/1022
Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6D09BB9900764D5F
Man, Economy, and State
http://mises.org/resources/1082
The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar
http://mises.org/resources/611
America's Great Depression
http://mises.org/resources/694
Making Economic Sense
http://mises.org/resources/899
Panic of 1819 Reactions and Policies
http://mises.org/resources/695
Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure
http://mises.org/resources/2668
The Essential von Mises
http://mises.org/resources/3081
Power and Market: Government and the Economy
http://mises.org/resources/196
Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy
http://mises.org/resources/1223
The Mystery of Banking
http://mises.org/resources/614
Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard
http://mises.org/resources/5777
Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays
http://mises.org/resources/3147
Rothbard vs. the Philosophers
http://mises.org/resources/4983
Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty
http://mises.org/resources/1016
The Betrayal of the American Right
http://mises.org/resources/3316
World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals
http://mises.org/journals/jls/9_1/9_1_5.pdf
Education: Free and Compulsory
http://mises.org/resources/2689
Conceived in Liberty, Volume 1: A New Land, A New People
http://mises.org/resources/3006
Conceived in Liberty, Volume 2: The American Colonies in the First Half of the 18th Century
http://mises.org/resources/3007
Conceived in Liberty, Volume 3: Advance to Revolution, 1760-1775
http://mises.org/resources/3030
Conceived in Liberty, Volume 4: The Revolutionary War
http://mises.org/resources/3031
Links to more online books, essays and articles by Murray Rothbard and others:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard-lib.html
http://mises.org/literature.aspx?action=author&Id=299
http://mises.org/articles.aspx?AuthorId=299
http://mises.org/literature.aspx
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig von Mises
http://mises.org/resources/3250
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