The “Economics, Science, and Liberty” of Rothbard
In this splendid article by Hans Hoppe, recently featured at LRC, you will find an intellectual biography of the irrepressible Murray N. Rothbard.
Dr. Hoppe explicates why Rothbard upholds the mainstream tradition of Austrianism, "is the latest and most comprehensive system-builder within Austrian economics," and, also, that Rothbard is "the latest and most systematically political economist." He explains Rothbard's insights into diminishing marginal utility, that markets and private property are the sine qua non to satisfy the so-called Pareto-criterion (versus any form of socialism, including "limited" government socialism), the un-economic efficiency and un-justice of the State, monopoly theory, money, self-ownership and property theory, and history.
