Power and Market

Power and Market: Government and the Economy is a 1970 book by Murray Rothbard in which he analyzes the negative effects of the various kinds of government intervention, and denies that the State is either necessary or useful. It was originally part of his 1962 book Man, Economy, and State but was censored by the publisher, who felt it was too radical for publication^[1] and later published under the above title. It was reunited with the 4th edition of Man, Economy, and State in 2004 in the volume sub-titled "The Scholar's Edition" from the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

Table of contents

1. Defense Services on the Free Market (Full text) (Study Guide in PDF format)
2. Fundamentals of Intervention (Full text) (Study Guide in PDF format)
3. Triangular Intervention (Full text) (Study Guide in PDF format)
4. Binary Intervention: Taxation (Full text) (Study Guide in PDF format)
5. Binary Intervention: Government Expenditures (Full text) (Study Guide in PDF format)
6. Antimarket Ethics: A Praxeological Critique (Full text) (Study Guide in PDF format)
7. Conclusion: Economics and Public Policy (Full text) (Study Guide in PDF format)

Publishing history

English

• Power and Market: Government and the Economy. Fourth edition. Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig von Mises Institute. 2006. ISBN 1-933550-05-8.
• Man, Economy & State with Power and Market (The Scholar's Edition). Ludwig von Mises Institute. February 2004. ISBN 0-945466-30-7.
• Power and Market: Government and the Economy. New York University Press. April 1, 1981 Hardcover. 304 pages.
• Power and Market: Government and the Economy. Institute for Humane Studies. 1977. ISBN 0-8362-0751-3 (paperback). ISBN 0-8362-0750-5 (cloth).
• Power and Market: Government and the Economy. Menlo park, California: Institute for Humane Studies. 1970. (hardcover)

Russian

• Power and Market: Government and the Economy. 2002. Hardcover. 402 pages. ISBN 5-901901-06-1.

Notes

1. ↑ Murray Rothbard. "Man, Economy and State, The Scholar's Edition, p. lxv ff.". Lew Rockwell. 2004. 

External links

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