Check them out. I’ve promoted Jeffrey here before, but I was limited in the stuff I could link to. For new readers, he’s a former Rothbardian who has moved on to what he calls “post-libertarianism” that points out the ideological blinders among his former brethren and explores the implications of widespread ignorance.
January 3, 2009
January 7, 2009 at 1:41 am
In one equates libertarianism with Rothbard, then I’m not getting an incentive to read his papers. Rothbard is certainly brilliant and correct on some issues, but on the whole he’s probably the most ideologically blind academic I’ve read.
January 7, 2009 at 3:13 am
Grant Says:
In one equates libertarianism with Rothbard, then I’m not getting an incentive to read his papers.
How did we go from being a “former Rothbardian” to “equates libertarianism with Rothbard”?
January 7, 2009 at 8:53 am
In papers like “What’s Wrong With Libertarianism” he goes after plenty of non-Rothbardian libertarians like Milton Friedman & Charles Murray.
January 7, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Jeffrey Friedman is more than familiar with libertarianism, and rightly singles out Rothbard because he’s been so influential on the youthful intellectuals at the Mises Institute and subsequently the academics at George Mason and elsewhere.
January 10, 2009 at 1:55 pm
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