![]() ![]() His Economic Thought before Adam Smith and Classical Economics (Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1995), constituting volumes I and II of ∺n Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, demonstrate his mastery of both the original and the interpretive literature pertaining to those periods. 1 He is less well known, perhaps, for his considerable erudition in the field of the history of economic thought. The late Murray Rothbard is well known for his versions of libertarianism and Austrian economics and for his love of controversy. A partly informed, partly myopic and sometimes useful interpretation, this is the work of an ideologue. Indeed, Rothbard appropriates the history of economic thought principally to advance his perspective, as seen in his neglect of social control, his identification of his desired economic system with the natural order of things, and especially in his denigratory treatment of Adam Smithat bottom for not being an Austrian economist and a true libertarian. But his interpretation of the development of economics reflects, and is therefore severely limited by, his Austrian-libertarian perspective. Murray Rothbards Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought demonstrates his mastery of the literature. ![]() ![]() Murray Rothbards Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought ![]()
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