Repurposing Mises: Murray Rothbard and the Birth of Anarchocapitalism
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Repurposing Mises : Murray Rothbard and the Birth of Anarchocapitalism. / Jensen, Jacob.
In: Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 83, No. 2, 2022, p. 315-332.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Repurposing Mises
T2 - Murray Rothbard and the Birth of Anarchocapitalism
AU - Jensen, Jacob
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This article examines how Murray Rothbard, though he claimed to follow Ludwig von Mises very closely, ended up making a number of radical leaps that Mises never did. It argues that Rothbard constructed anarchocapitalism by repurposing Mises's economic theory. First, whereas Mises responded to interwar socialism, Rothbard redeployed his mentor's economics in response to the militarism of the right-wing. Second, whereas Mises defended the market as a consumers' democracy against ideas about economic democracy, Rothbard developed an anti-democratic view of the market in response to the egalitarianism of the counterculture. These differences in context account for the distinctiveness of anarchocapitalism.
AB - This article examines how Murray Rothbard, though he claimed to follow Ludwig von Mises very closely, ended up making a number of radical leaps that Mises never did. It argues that Rothbard constructed anarchocapitalism by repurposing Mises's economic theory. First, whereas Mises responded to interwar socialism, Rothbard redeployed his mentor's economics in response to the militarism of the right-wing. Second, whereas Mises defended the market as a consumers' democracy against ideas about economic democracy, Rothbard developed an anti-democratic view of the market in response to the egalitarianism of the counterculture. These differences in context account for the distinctiveness of anarchocapitalism.
U2 - 10.1353/jhi.2022.0015
DO - 10.1353/jhi.2022.0015
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 35603616
VL - 83
SP - 315
EP - 332
JO - Journal of the History of Ideas
JF - Journal of the History of Ideas
SN - 0022-5037
IS - 2
ER -
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