The Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 4

by Murray N. Rothbard (Editor)

RAE VOLUME 4
Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with the mainstream, and show their wares to the profession and the world at large.

Rothbard was an exacting editor, and results are spectacular and historic.

The individual issues have been nearly impossible to find, until now. Today you can own the entire set, learn from the pioneering articles that Murray and his co-editors saw as crucial, and see what gave the modern Austrian movement its scholarly momentum.


The Review of Austrian EconomicsVolume 4
I. Articles
1.Eugen Richter and Late German Manchester Liberalism: A Reevaluation
Ralph Raico
2.Ludwig von Mises as Social Rationalist
Joseph T. Salerno
3.Banking, Nation States and International Politics:A Sociological Reconstruction of the Present Economic Order
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
4.National Goods versus Public Goods: Defense, Disarmament, and Free Riders
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
5.Karl Marx: Communist as Religious Eschatologist
Murray N. Rothbard
6.The Subjectivist Roots of James Buchanan’s Economics
Thomas J. DiLorenzo
II.Notes and Comments
7.The DMVP-MVP Controversy: A Note
Walter Block
8.Misconceptions about Austrian Business Cycle Theory: A Comment
James Clark and James Keeler
III.Book Reviews
9.Gary B. Madison. Understanding: A Phenomenological-Pragmatic Analysis
Reviewed by David Gordon
10.Thomas Sowell. A Conflict of Visions
Reviewed by David Gordon
11.David Conway. A Farewell to Marx
Reviewed by David Gordon
12.Richard L. Lucier. The International Political Economy of Coffee
Reviewed by E. C. Pasour, Jr.
13.Walter Block and Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., eds. Man, Economy, and Liberty
Reviewed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

263 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Murray Newton Rothbard was an influential American historian, natural law theorist and economist of the Austrian School who helped define modern libertarianism. Rothbard took the Austrian School's emphasis on spontaneous order and condemnation of central planning to an individualist anarchist conclusion, which he termed "anarcho-capitalism".

In the 1970s, he assisted Charles Koch and Ed Crane to found the Cato Institute as libertarian think tank.