A rare collection of eight Murray N. Rothbard lectures.
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The Progressive Era Triple Alliance: Government as Cartellizer (continued)
The state must invest in human beings the same way you invest in cattle on a farm. This progressive corporatist view was behind the creation of the Rockefeller Foundation. Industri…
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The Inflationary Boom of the 1920s
The Industrial Revolution and the development of the modern banking system were the two big things that happened in the Eighteenth Century in Britain. Why does the boom-bust cycle…
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The Inflationary Boom of the 1920s (continued)
Republican policy has always been high tariffs, keeping foreign goods out. But, then the US would lend those countries money to be able to pay for our higher-priced exports. This p…
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The New Deal and the Post-War International Monetary System
The World Economic Conference of 1933 in London met to deal with America's Great Depression, but, without consulting anyone, FDR declared that the U.S. would not agree to the propo…
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The Future of Libertarianism
Rothbard explains why he is optimistic. The norm of civilization has been despotism and statism. The quantum quality change in history has been the Industrial Revolution from mid-1…
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The Rise of Big Business: The Failure of Trusts and Cartels (continued)
Despite the drive for monopoly, only oil, sugar and corn products ended up dominated by a particular company. Bigger was not better. Biggest was not best. Smaller and more mobile w…
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The Progressive Era Triple Alliance: Government as Cartellizer
The progressive period birthed the cancerous growth of the welfare/warfare state, fake capitalism, the middle way, neomercantilism, and the corporate state. Morgan and Rockefeller…
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The Rise of Big Business: The Failure of Trusts and Cartels
In the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th, the rise of big business on the free market could not create monopolies and cartels. Only government could do that. Government tr…