ISBN10: 0391023713, ISBN13: 9780391023710, [publisher: Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J.] Hardcover First Edition "First published in the United States of America in 1982 by Humanities Press, Inc." Will close its own text block. Modest rub to corners. No dust jacket -- apparently issued without jacket. Dated March 1982 -- the year of publication -- warmly inscribed to Colin Hunter, "a dedicated and intelligent libertarian," and signed to the free front endpaper "Murray Rothbard." Hunter, who was active with Rothbard and Bill Evers on the Central Committee of the Libertarian Party Radical Caucus from about 1978-1983, financed Eric Garris & Justin Raimondo in the launch of their Web venture Antiwar-(dot)-com in 1995, and subsequently co-founded the Silicon Valley microprocessor start-up Transmeta, which took in a reported $273 million with its IPO in the year 2000. Rothbard (1926-1995) was the S.J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, from 1986. He developed and extended the Austrian economics of Ludwig von Mises, in whose seminar he was a main participant for many years. He established himself as the principal Austrian theorist in the latter half of the twentieth century, applying Austrian analysis to such historical topics as the Great Depression and the history of American banking. Following on Mises' demonstration that a society without private property degenerates into ...
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