Murray Rothbard

Cards (13)

  • all current functions of the state would be replaced by market based services
  • ideal society is stateless as the state is incompatible with liberty - it has the power to tax and control over the powers of coercion
  • state should be replaced by the market- an invisible hand that would allow private interests to create general good through voluntary and mutually beneficial exchanges
  • individual is the ego, which the concept of self ownership authority and freedom to determine one's identity
  • education, roads, policing, law courts and environmental protection could be provided more efficiently through the market- it provides both choice and competition
  • Book
    Man, Economy, State 1962
  • Advocated for abolition of the government control of society and economy. monopoly force of government- greatest danger to liberty
  • state provided services should be more efficient by the private sector- free and competitive environment- controversial
  • called taxation slavery
  • state is a product of exploitation
  • father of anarcho-capitalism - individual responsibility and self ownership is preferable to state control - opposed taxation, form of slavery
  • individual's autonomy and natural rights can be protected - complete dismantling of the state and its replacement by a system of private property
  • Case Study: Prospera
    Charter city, which is a special economic zone with its own fiscal, regulatory and legal framework