The Tom Woods Show, episode 1430.

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mine from 11 freaking years ago at the Rothbard Graduate Seminar, which is a week-long event held at the Meese's Institute, at which some seminal text in the Austrian tradition is studied in great detail. So I gave an informal talk about Rothbard as a historian. Now, most of you, I would say virtually everybody listening to this, knows who Murray Rothbard was.

In case you don't, he probably was the greatest libertarian who ever lived. I don't see how that can be

disputed. So unbelievably prolific, you can't even begin to appreciate the scope of his accomplishments.

He kept the Austrian school alive during probably the darkest years of its existence with his work, man, economy, and state that was held in extremely high regard by Ludwig von Meeses.

And everybody who was at that South Royalton conference in 1974, I think, after Hayek won the

Nobel Prize, every single one of them influenced by man economy and state. But beyond his

economic contributions, which were many, he was also a great historian and economic historian.

So his work on America's Great Depression is a fantastic book, and I was so

happy that Paul Johnson, who's a popular historian I like very much, integrated Rothbard's thesis

into his own work modern times, one of my favorite history books ever. So Rothbard has a tremendous

record. In fact, as you know, if you've been listening to this program for a while, the missing fifth volume of Rothbard's conceived in Liberty series, which is a series of books on the colonial period of American history, is now coming out because somebody, Patrick Newman, managed to decipherer Rothbard's totally indecipherable handwriting and be

able to tell us what the heck the darn thing said so that we're able to publish it and now bring

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