Murray Rothbard: The Decline of Laissez-Faire (American Economy Lecture #3)

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The late great Murray Rothbard gave a series of lectures in 1986 at New York Polytechnic University entitled "The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire: 1870 to World War II." Fortunately for us, they were recorded by Hans Hermann-Hoppe.

This third lecture is entitled "The Decline of Laissez-Faire."

Audio for the entire lecture series can be found here:
http://mises.org/media.aspx?action=category&ID=217

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[pretorious700]

brilliant man....368 views..."blowjob girl" has 500,000 or something...speaks volumes about American stupidity

[truevoice08]

greatest intellectual of the social sciences to have graced the earth!!!

[eulercircles]

@pretorious700 I wonder if there is any overlap of viewership.

[AussieAustrianBlog]

@deficithawker You cannot be serious?

[phroto13]

@Sam26100 well the fact that there is a voluntarily funded government i would say denotes it different from a statist government entirely and turns it into a business. i have often heard people refer to the market as the voluntary sector and the public sector as the coercive sector for that very reason. this i would say is possible for defence resolution organizations that are funded in the same way that your "government" would be. personally molyneux has convinced me that AC is possible

[KevZen2000]

Murray Rothbard was a great economist, and he exposed the superstition of Statism.

[michaelpshipley1]

@pretorious700 LOL

[geehuckwow]

We need a "blowjob girl economic lecture"! Actually, until taxation is eliminated the USA life is going to be useless, and the blowjob girl is going to do more good. Sad but true. The banks have supported porno/prostitution since day two, because they want to entertain/distract/demoralize while they steal your money. No secret.

[Muthsera80]

@smithwicktom

You have to take both views with a bit of skepticism. I personally think Harvey jumps to a few conclusions which the facts he brings in does not support. But it's very hard to argue about the findings themselves. Also, I think your missing the point slightly in what Harvey means about the post ww2 era. That the freeroam the market had in late 1800 and early 1900 created an economic system where a few managed to create syndicates, which they then used to corrupt the system further.

[smithwicktom]

@Muthsera80 Hey there, I appreciate you exposing me to David Harvey. I do think that Harvy's points, and Rothbards, lay criticism on the same state empowered oligopolies, and the tendency for this 'elite' group to use state monopoly on violence and force to systematically pull property (or cumulative time/value) and time from the majority. They are on the same side, but explain their critiques of elitist through different lenses; Rothbard through libertarianism, and Harvey through Marxism.