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MURRAY N. ROTHBARD VS. THE PHILOSPHERS: UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS
82 ON HAYEK, MISES, STRAUSS, AND POLYANI
It deserves the widest possible distribution, and would be
indeed a fitting companion to Hazlitt’s The Fallacies of the
New Economics, that refutation of the other great explanation
of the Depression—the Keynesian.
5.
Cordially,
Murray
LETTER ON
THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY COMMONWEALTHMAN
BY CAROLINE ROBBINS
November 26, 1959
Mr. Kenneth S. Templeton
William Volker Fund
Dear Ken:
Caroline Robbins’s The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman,
which you asked me to report upon when I saw
you last in New York, is a monumental book. 25 (Its subtitle
is “Studies in the Transmission, Development, and Circumstance
of English Liberal Thought from the Restoration of
Charles II until the War with the Thirteen Colonies.”) To
students of the liberal tradition and its history (“liberal” in
25 Caroline Robbins, The Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman:
Studies in the Transmission, Development, and Circumstance
of English Liberal Thought from the Restoration of Charles II until
the War with the Thirteen Colonies (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 1959).