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- Title
31 Reckoning with Rothbard.
- Authors
Kyriazi, Harold
- Abstract
This article focuses on Murray Newton Rothbard's strongest points and mature, integrated position, highlighting his errors and differences with Henry George'single tax proposal. Rothard was an economist by profession, was an active libertarian intellectual for almost fifty years, a voracious reader, prolific writer, charismatic speaker, irrepressible political activist, inspiration to myriad young libertarian scholars and activists, and one of the central figures in the libertarian movement. His views on the land question were intellectually consistent, but entirely flawed, and reminiscent of the complexly interwoven, delusional alternate realities dreamed up by clever paranoid-schizophrenics. He had an answer to everything, and all of his answers were wrong. His alternate reality was based on a failure to understand the positive spatial externalities attaching to land use, that the contributions of these to the value of individual parcels of land could be separately assessed, the vicious cycle nature of purely private land ownership, and that any system that permits all land to be privately appropriated in a fashion that excludes some, is, to the excluded, inherently coercive, depriving them of basic rights.
- Subjects
ROTHBARD, Murray Newton, 1926-1995; GEORGE, Henry, 1839-1897; SINGLE tax; LAND economics; ECONOMICS
- Publication
American Journal of Economics & Sociology, 2004, Vol 63, Issue 2, p451
- ISSN
0002-9246
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1536-7150.2004.00298.x