New at Reason: Brian Doherty on the Libertarian War Between Murray Rothbard and F.A. Hayek

December 18, 2009

Murray Rothbard, the anarchist libertarian, thought that F.A. Hayek, the Nobel-Prize winning economist and libertarian hero, was actually dangerous to the cause of liberty. This is just one of the interesting details about Rothbard revealed in a new posthumous collection of his previously unpublished writings, Rothbard vs. The Philosophers. As Senior Editor Brian Doherty explains, the reasons why Rothbard objected so strongly to Hayek shed new light on a war that has bubbled in the larger libertarian movement ever since. It's a war that neither side has won, Doherty writes. Which is a good thing.

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