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The Mystery of Banking Hardcover – September 10, 2008

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ludwig von Mises Institute; 2nd edition (September 10, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 298 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1933550287
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1933550282
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.4 ounces
  • Customer Reviews:
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Murray N. Rothbard
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Murray Newton Rothbard (/ˈmʌri ˈrɑːθbɑːrd/; March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American heterodox economist of the Austrian School, a revisionist historian, and a political theorist(pp11, 286, 380) whose writings and personal influence played a seminal role in the development of modern libertarianism. Rothbard was the founder and leading theoretician of anarcho-capitalism, a staunch advocate of historical revisionism, and a central figure in the twentieth-century American libertarian movement. He wrote over twenty books on political theory, revisionist history, economics, and other subjects. Rothbard asserted that all services provided by the "monopoly system of the corporate state" could be provided more efficiently by the private sector and wrote that the state is "the organization of robbery systematized and writ large." He called fractional reserve banking a form of fraud and opposed central banking. He categorically opposed all military, political, and economic interventionism in the affairs of other nations.(pp4–5, 129) According to his protégé Hans-Hermann Hoppe, "There would be no anarcho-capitalist movement to speak of without Rothbard."

Rothbard was a heterodox economist. Economist Jeff Herbener, who calls Rothbard his friend and "intellectual mentor", wrote that Rothbard received "only ostracism" from mainstream academia. Rothbard rejected mainstream economic methodologies and instead embraced the praxeology of his most important intellectual precursor, Ludwig von Mises. To promote his economic and political ideas, Rothbard joined Llewellyn H. "Lew" Rockwell, Jr. and Burton Blumert in 1982 to establish the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Alabama.

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Great book. Poorly printed version
This book’s copyright has expired. This soft cover is a very poor printing of the Public Domain book. Poor font, misspelled words.For such a good reference book, I wish I would have bought a hard cover. If you want this book free, it’s all over the internet as a free pdf.
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> terrible pixelated graphic on the cover
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This is probably worse than printing a PDF yourself on a home printer.
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