The Betrayal Of The American Right
''The Betrayal of the American Right'' is a book by Murray Rothbard written in the early 1970s and published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute in 2007. Rothbard, Murray N. "Preface to the 1991 Edition"''The Betrayal of the American Right'' edited with an Introduction by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007. p. xxi. . In it, Rothbard describes the development of the American political Old Right between the 1930s and 1950s, claiming that it died out in favor of a more interventionist political Right during the Cold War. It also describes Rothbard's own intellectual development during the period. Summary Rothbard describes the transformation of the American right wing over the past two decades, from an opposition movement to an establishment-supporting one. As defined in Chapter 1, "Two Rights, Old and New", the Old Right, which existed from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, was a libertarian, anti-establishment movement that opposed the New Deal ...
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Murray Rothbard
Murray Newton Rothbard (; March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist of the Austrian School, economic historian, political theorist, and activist. Rothbard was a central figure in the 20th-century American libertarian movement and a founder and leading theoretician of anarcho-capitalism. He wrote over twenty books on political theory, history, economics, and other subjects. Rothbard argued that all services provided by the "monopoly system of the corporate state" could be provided more efficiently by the private sector and wrote that the state is "the organization of robbery systematized and writ large". He called fractional-reserve banking a form of fraud and opposed central banking. He categorically opposed all military, political, and economic interventionism in the affairs of other nations. According to his protégé Hans-Hermann Hoppe, " ere would be no anarcho-capitalist movement to speak of without Rothbard". Libertarian economist Jeffrey H ...
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