Murray N. Rothbard vs. the Philosophers - Ludwig von Mises Institute

MURRAY N. ROTHBARD VS. THE PHILOSOPHERS: UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS
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to a split and the end of contributions from Rothbard,
who adheres to his consistently antimilitarist
position.
1962. The Panic of 1819 and Man, Economy, and State
are published. The latter deals with Austrian economics
and follows the praxeological method.
1963. Publication of America’s Great Depression, in which
the author applies Mises’s business-cycle theory to
the years leading up to the economic crisis of 1929
and those immediately afterward. Rothbard maintains
that intervention in the fields of credit and
industry, resulting from Herbert Hoover’s policies,
interfered with the capacity of the market to correct
its production structure, thus transforming the economic
crisis into a long and painful depression.
1965. On April 17, tens of thousands of young people
march on Washington, calling for an end to the Vietnam
War. Rothbard sympathizes with the youth
protest antiwar movement.
1965. Publication of the first issue of the periodical Left
and Right founded by Rothbard, Leonard Liggio, and
George Resch.
1966. Begins to teach at the Polytechnic Institute of New
York, where he will stay until 1986.
1968. Briefly joins the Peace and Freedom Party, attempting
to find an alliance with the New Left on the basis
of criticism of industry/military relations and links
with the state. The party has its origins in the youth
protest movement. It is soon dissolved.
1969. The Republican youth organization Young Americans
for Freedom divides on the issues of the Vietnam
War and conscription. As a result, a new independent
libertarian movement, centered around the Society
for Individual Liberty, is born.