Can there be a right to freedom of speech without that right being firmly based on property rights? Murray Rothbard asked and answered that question simply and succinctly in Power and Market . “Where does a man have this right? He certainly does not have it on property on which he is trespassing. In short, he has this right only either on his own
The common thief has the decency to leave you alone after he takes your money. But, society’s biggest thief, government, steals money, calling it taxation, and then lurks in the shadows to tell its victims what to do, calling it regulation. And, in Las Vegas the government goes one step further, it taxes, it regulates and then competes head to
I should have known Murray Rothbard was something special the first night of class when I noticed a fellow student, James Philbin, following behind Murray as he entered the classroom carrying a stool for Murray to sit on as he lectured. Philbin, like others in the class, knew who Murray was; he was their whole reason for being in the University of
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.