{"title":"Murray N. Rothbard","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-origins-of-the-federal-reserve-large-print-edition-paperback","title":"The Origins of the Federal Reserve (Large Print Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eLARGE PRINT EDITION! More at LargePrintLiberty.com \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhere did this thing called the Fed come from? Murray Rothbard has the answer here -- in phenomenal detail that will make your head spin. In one extended essay, one that reads like a detective story, he has put together the most comprehensive and fascinating account based on a century's accumulation of scholarship.The conclusion is that the Fed did not originate as a policy response to national need. It wasn't erected for any of its stated purposes. It was founded by two groups of elites: government officials and large financial and banking interests. Rothbard adds a third critical element: economists hired to give the scheme a scientific patina.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367066337503,"sku":"9781479300662","price":7.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/dSXwuni5RO9781479300662.webp?v=1789102297"},{"product_id":"what-has-government-done-to-our-money-hardcover","title":"What Has Government Done to Our Money? - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat Has Government Done to Our Money? details the history of money, from early barter systems, to the gold standard, to present-day systems of paper money. Rothbard explains how money was originally developed, and why gold was chosen as the preferred commodity to use as money. The author also explains how the gold standard makes money a commodity, and how market forces create a stable economy. Rothbard shows that many European governments went bankrupt due to World War I and left the gold standard in order to try to solve their financial issues, which was not the right solution. He also argues that this strategy was partially responsible for World War II and led to economic problems throughout the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367532003551,"sku":"9781607967767","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/H5cJbPsL-F9781607967767.webp?v=1789109762"},{"product_id":"americas-great-depression-hardcover","title":"America's Great Depression - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eRothbard opens with a theoretical treatment of business cycle theory, showing how an expansive monetary policy generates imbalances between investment and consumption. He proceeds to examine the Fed's policies of the 1920s, demonstrating that it was quite inflationary even if the effects did not show up in the price of goods and services. He showed that the stock market correction was merely one symptom of the investment boom that led inevitably to a bust. The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle, which in turn was generated by government intervention in the economy. Had the book appeared in the 1940s, it might have spared the world much grief. Even so, its appearance in 1963 meant that free-market advocates had their first full-scale treatment of this crucial subject. The damage to the intellectual world inflicted by Keynesian- and socialist-style treatments would be limited from that day forward. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e About the Author \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Murray N. Rothbard, the author of 25 books and thousands of articles, was a historian, philosopher, and dean of the Austrian School of economics. The S.J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he was also Academic Vice President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Ala.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367550189791,"sku":"9781607961109","price":32.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RZkRgSxLyc9781607961109.webp?v=1789109796"},{"product_id":"what-has-government-done-to-our-money-paperback","title":"What Has Government Done to Our Money? - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat Has Government Done to Our Money? details the history of money, from early barter systems, to the gold standard, to present-day systems of paper money. 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He also argues that this strategy was partially responsible for World War II and led to economic problems throughout the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367559626975,"sku":"9781607967750","price":10.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0xWNPONkSq9781607967750.webp?v=1789109814"},{"product_id":"what-has-government-done-to-our-money-paperback-1","title":"What Has Government Done to Our Money? - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Has Government Done to Our Money? was first published in 1962 as \"Money, free and unfree\", and details the history of money, from early barter systems, to the gold standard, to present-day systems of paper money. Rothbard explains how money was originally developed, and why gold was chosen as the preferred commodity to use as money. The author also explains how the gold standard makes money a commodity, and how market forces create a stable economy. Rothbard shows that many European governments went bankrupt due to World War I and left the gold standard in order to try to solve their financial issues, which was not the right solution. He also argues that this strategy was partially responsible for World War II and led to economic problems throughout the world. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369332441311,"sku":"9781774642337","price":7.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/O15ZKYRetl9781774642337.webp?v=1789140636"},{"product_id":"anatomy-of-the-state-paperback","title":"Anatomy of the State - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eLARGE PRINT EDITION! More at LargePrintLiberty.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis gives a succinct account of Rothbard's view of the state. Following Franz Oppenheimer and Albert Jay Nock, Rothbard regards the state as a predatory entity. It does not produce anything but rather steals resources from those engaged in production. In applying this view to American history, Rothbard makes use of the work of John C. Calhoun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow can an organization of this type sustain itself? It must engage in propaganda to induce popular support for its policies. Court intellectuals play a key role here, and Rothbard cites as an example of ideological mystification the work of the influential legal theorist Charles Black, Jr., on the way the Supreme Court has become a revered institution.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377614323935,"sku":"9781514674987","price":7.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/xqfuRVOxq49781514674987.webp?v=1789236197"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/murray-n-rothbard.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}