A priori propositions, 15 Abbott, Lawrence, 85–87 Abortion rights, 108 Abrams, M.H., 99 Action axiom, 14–15, 30 Acton, Lord, 100 Adams, Brooks, 50 Adams, Henry, 49 Advertising, 86 Alienation, of property and of will, 90–91 American Revolution, 56, 59 Anarchism, 80, 100 communist, 102 individualist, 12–13, 124 market, 93–94 Aquinas, Thomas, 67 Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, 15 on exchange, 116 Arms budget, 96 Art, modern, 107 Articles of Confederation, 59–60 Austrian School of economics, 115 business cycle theory, 36, 42–44 structure of production, theory of 18, 43 value theory, 31 Baby-rights, 111 Backhouse, Roger, 121 Baconian methodology, 41 Bacon’s Rebellion, 56 Bank of England, 46 Bank, Keynesian World, 40 Banking central, 38 deposit, 38 fractional reserve, 38 investment, 52–53 Beardian class-struggle thesis, 52 Becker, Carl, 56 Berlin, Isaiah, 64, 93 Bernardelli, Harro, 11 Black, Jr., Charles L., 73–75 Blackmail, 93 Block, Walter, 122 Boétie, Etiénne de la, 59 INDEX 179 Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen <strong>von</strong>, 18 Boulding, Kenneth E., 110 Bourne, Randolph, 94 Britain, 53, 104 Brown, Norman O., 102 Browning, Robert, 124 Buchanan, James, 32–33, 75–79 Buchanan, Patrick, 108 Buckley, Jr., William F., 94–95 Buridan, Jean, 116 Burke, Edmund, 100 Burnham, James, 95 Burns, Arthur, 10, 10n, 41 Calhoun, John C., 75 Cantillon, Richard, 116 Capital goods, 43–44 Capitalism, 32 Caplan, Bryan 19 Cartel, One Big, 16 Catholic Church, 61, 114 Cato’s Letters, 58 Chamberlin, Edward, 17 Charity, 25 Chauncy, Charles, 57 Chicago School, 39, 45 Children, 93, 101 Choice, 110 Christianity. See Catholic Church; Protestantism; Pietism, postmillenial; Puritanism Churchill, Winston, 123 Circle Bastiat, 123 Clark, John Maurice, 10 Coase, Ronald, 16, 123n Coase theorem, 123 Coercion, 22–25, 32 Cohen, G.A., 91 Cold War, 95 Columbia University, 9 economics department, 10–11 Commons, John R., 62 Communism, 95 Competition, perfect, 78, 86 Competitive price, 17 Competition, “quality,” 86, 87
180 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Essential</strong> <strong>Rothbard</strong> Conant, Charles, 50 Consent of the governed, 58 Conservatism, 94 Constitution, 75 Consumer goods, 43–44 Consumption, 22 Contracts, 89–90 expectations theory of, 89 freedom of, 89 promise theory of, 89 Corruption, 81 Cost curves, 77 Counterfeiting, 38 Courts, 108 Credit expansion, 19, 37–38, 40, 42–45, 48, 54 Crédit Mobilier, 80–81 Creditors, 52 Dante Alighieri, 69 Debtors, 52 Deconstructionism, 35 Decretists, 66 Defense, provision of, 12 Demand artificial, 32 curves, 17–18 deposits, 38 law of, 10 speculative, to hold money, 19–20 Democracy, 111–12 Democratic Party, 62 Demonstrated preference, 28 Depression, 44, 48. See also Great Depression Development, industrial, 85 Dewey, John, 62–63 Disarmament, 96 Discounted Marginal Value Product (DMVP), 24 Dissent, 73 Division of labor, 98–99 Dorfman, Joseph, 12, 52 Downs, Anthony, 79–80 Economic calculation, 15–16, 31 regions, 84 Economics capital theory, 18 deductive, 14, 30, 117 Keynesian, 18–21, 40, 83, 85 mathematics in, 15, 118 neoclassical, 15 price theory, 114, 119 rent theory, 18, 119 role of statistics in, 10 role of theory in, 9 subjectivist, 31, 115–16, 117 theory of value, 115, 117 utility theory, 11, 114 Walrasian, 35 welfare, 27, 111 Economy, plantation, 85 Efficiency, 29 Elasticity of demand, 17 Elitism, 74 Ely, Richard T., 62 Emanationism, 99 Entrepreneurs, 35, 82, 118 Equality, 71, 78, 97–98 of income, 23, 85 of opportunity, 23 Ethics as distinct from political philosophy, 92–93 in economics, 26–27 objective, 64, 87, 107 unrealistic, 23 Exchange rates, floating, 40 Exchange, 116, 119–20 Exploitation, 120 Exports, 82–84 Externalities, positive, 28–29 Fact-value dichotomy, 64 Federal Reserve System, 39, 41, 45 creation of, 51–52 Feminism, 102 Ferguson, Thomas, 55 Fetter, Frank, 18 Feudal land tenure, 92 Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 92n Finney, Charles, 61 Firms, 16 First Bank of the United States, 51 Fisher, Irving, 21, 45 Fleming, Tom, 13n Flynn, John T., 94 Fogel, Robert, 80–81 Foot, Philippa, 65 Force, 22–25, 32 Foreign policy, 94–96, 101
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