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here. First, the use of imprecise concepts may well be
w 0 r t h w h i Ie, evennee ded, .. a t t.h e I eve I 0 f res ear c h • But
this can hardly be the case at the level of applicat
ion, i. e ., as use d by dec i s ion rna ke r s • And i tis the
level of appl i cat ion that Rothbard is concerned with.
Second, even at the research level, "conceptual richness"
may well prove to be merely a euphemism for "conceptual
confusion."
(28)See, for example, Rothbard, Power and Market
(Menlo Park, Cal.: Institute for Humane Studies, 1970),
pp. 168-73 and 194-96. Milton Shapiro has aptly noted
t hat abe t t e r tit I e for t his boo k w 0 u I d h a ve bee n
Power or Market. See hi s "Power OR Market: government
and the economy: a review," Libertarian Analysis
( V0 I. 1, Nurn b e r 4), Pp. 2 2 - 29 •
(29)Dahl, Modern Political Analysis, pp. 32-33.
(30)For other definitions of power see Dahl's
" Power • " A Iso see J 0 h n C ham p 1 in, e d •• Power ( New
York: Lieber, 1971); Peter Bachrach and Morton Baratz.
"Two Faces of Power," The American Political Science
Rev i ew (D e c e mb e r 1 9 6 1 ), PP • 9 47 - 52; and the i r n Dec i ­
sions and Nondecisions: An Analytical Framework," The
American Political Science Review (September 1963),
pp. 632-42; and Harry Eckstein. "Authority Patterns,"
Compar a t i v e Pol i tic s : Not e s 8 n d Read i n g S teds. Ra y
Macridis and Bernard Brown (Homewood, Ill.: Dorsey,
1977), pp. 271-99, to ci te just a few.
(31)H. E. Frech III, "The Public Choice Theory of
Murray N. Rothbard, A Modern American Anarchist,"
Public Choice (Vol. 14, 1973). pp. 149-50.
(32)Bruno Leoni, Freedom and the Law (Los
Angel es: Nash, 1971), p. 55.
(33)Murray Rothbard, For A New Liberty (New
York: Macmillan, 1973), pp. 208-09.
(34)Ibid., p. 209.
(35)Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969), pp. 21
and 109.
( 3 6 ) Wa 1 t erG r i n d erand J 0 hn Hage I I I I, "Towa r d a
Theory of State CapItalism: Ultimate Decision-Making
and Class Structure,: The Journal of Libertarian
Studie s (W i n t e r 1 9 7 7 ), P • 67. A1S 0 see Ro t hbar d, For
A New Liberty, p. 53.
(37)F. A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty
(Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1971), p. 12.
(38)Harold Laski t "Liberty," Encyclopedia of the
Soc i 8 I Sci e nee s V 0 I. 9. ( New Yo r k : Ma cm i I I an, 19 4 6 ) ,
p. 443.
(39 )Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty. pp.
12-23.
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