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

MURRAY N. ROTHBARD VS. THE PHILOSPHERS: UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS
78 ON HAYEK, MISES, STRAUSS, AND POLYANI
the right of expropriation of private property by
government (right of eminent domain, etc.) provided
it is at “fair compensation”—the “fair compensation,”
of course to be determined by . . . government
He concedes that the Henry George single-tax plan would
be fine if only there could be clearly separated in practice
the site value from the improvement value of land;
He favors
governmental building codes, and minimum safety
regulation
compulsory expropriation of land
federal government parks, and “nature reservations”
federal government spreading of agricultural knowledge
to farmers
compulsory minimum education for children, with
government of course setting the minimum standards
government aid for education of the poor; he seems
to adopt the Friedman plan for government financing
of every parent, who can choose his own private
school, thus eliminating the need for public schools
(of course, the private schools would have to meet
governmental “minimum standards”); however, he
doesn’t go as far as the Friedman plan, because
Hayek
a. wants to retain public schools in isolated
districts where private schools would not pay
b. in retrospect, favors public schools for nineteenth-century
America, when transportation
was poorer, and where public schools were
needed to “Americanize” the immigrants compulsorily
“academic freedom” and “tenure” in colleges
government, federal aid to higher education
especially of general scientists and scholars
government special taxation of slum property
Cordially,
Murray