# Murray Rothbard: Bibliography Back to [[Murray Rothbard]] · Outlines in **Book Outlines/** · [[Theories and Influence]] **How dates and publishers were checked:** first-edition years and publishers come from Wikipedia's works list, cross-checked against copyright pages in the Mises Institute PDFs where I had them, and against David Gordon's Mises Institute biography. Where the sources disagree, both are given and flagged ⚠️. Nearly all of Rothbard's books are free in full at mises.org. The Mises Institute's complete Rothbard bibliography PDF was behind a Cloudflare challenge and could not be read, so this list is the **major works, not an exhaustive list** of his roughly 25 books and many hundreds of articles. ## Books published in his lifetime | Year | Title | First publisher | Later / notes | Outline | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1962 | ***Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economic Principles*** (2 vols) | D. Van Nostrand | Scholar's ed. with *Power and Market*, Mises Institute 2004 | [[Man, Economy, and State (1962)]] | | 1962 | ***The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies*** | Columbia University Press | His 1956 PhD dissertation; Mises Institute reprint 2004 (Wikipedia; the reprint year was not checked) | [[Other Major Works#The Panic of 1819 (1962)]] | | 1963 | ***America's Great Depression*** | D. Van Nostrand | 5th ed. Mises Institute 2000 | [[America's Great Depression (1963)]] | | 1963 | ***What Has Government Done to Our Money?*** | ⚠️ First publisher not verified | Copyright page: "© 1963, 1985, 1990"; Gordon dates it 1964; Mises Institute 5th ed. 2005 | [[What Has Government Done to Our Money (1963)]] | | 1970 | ***Power and Market: Government and the Economy*** | Institute for Humane Studies (copyright page: "© 1970 by Institute for Humane Studies"); 2nd ed. 1977. The 2nd ed. was published by Sheed Andrews and McMeel, Kansas City (cited in *The Ethics of Liberty*, fn. 3). Wikipedia gives Sheed Andrews and McMeel for 1970. | ⚠️ Gordon dates the full publication 1972. It was originally planned as the final part of *MES*. | [[Man, Economy, and State (1962)#Power and Market]] | | 1971 | ***Education, Free and Compulsory*** | First appeared in *The Individualist* (Apr., Jul.–Aug. 1971) | Revised: Center for Independent Education, 1979 (Wikipedia; the title-to-entry match is mine) | — | | 1972 | ***A New History of Leviathan: Essays on the Rise of the American Corporate State*** (ed., with [[Ronald Radosh]]) | E. P. Dutton | New Left / libertarian revisionist essays | [[Other Major Works#A New History of Leviathan (1972)]] | | 1973 | ***For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto*** | Macmillan / Collier Books | Rev. ed. 1978; Mises Institute 2006 | [[For a New Liberty (1973)]] | | 1974 | ***Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays*** | Libertarian Review Press | 2nd ed. Mises Institute 2000 | [[Other Major Works#Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature (1974)]] | | 1974 | ***The Anatomy of the State*** (long essay) | Wikipedia: 1974 (collected in *Egalitarianism…*). ⚠️ Often said to have first appeared in *Rampart Journal* in 1965 (not verified) | Mises Institute booklet 2009 | [[Other Major Works#Anatomy of the State (1974)]] | | 1975–79 | ***Conceived in Liberty*** (4 vols) | Arlington House (New Rochelle, NY) | Vol. 5 (*The New Republic: 1784–1791*), ed. Patrick Newman, Mises Institute 2019 | [[Other Major Works#Conceived in Liberty (1975–1979; vol. 5 2019)]] | | 1982 | ***The Ethics of Liberty*** | Humanities Press | NYU Press 1998, with Hoppe introduction | [[The Ethics of Liberty (1982)]] | | 1983 | ***The Mystery of Banking*** | Richardson & Snyder (Dutton) | 2nd ed. Mises Institute 2008 | [[The Mystery of Banking (1983)]] | | 1984 | ***Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy*** (monograph) | World Market Perspective | CLS 1995; Mises Institute 2005 | [[Other Major Works#Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy (1984)]] | | 1994 | ***The Case Against the Fed*** | Ludwig von Mises Institute | — | [[Other Major Works#The Case Against the Fed (1994)]] | ## Posthumous books | Year | Title | Publisher | Notes | |---|---|---|---| | 1995 | ***An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought***. Vol. 1 *Economic Thought Before Adam Smith*; Vol. 2 *Classical Economics* | Edward Elgar | Mises Institute 2006/2009. Outline: [[Other Major Works#An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995)]] | | 1995 ⚠️ | ***Making Economic Sense*** | Ludwig von Mises Institute | Columns from the Mises Institute's *The Free Market*. Wikipedia lists the 2007 Mises Institute printing; 1995 for the 1st ed. is from memory | | 1997 | ***The Logic of Action*** (2 vols) | Edward Elgar | His main theory papers; reprinted as *Economic Controversies* (Mises Institute, 2011) | | 2000 | ***The Irrepressible Rothbard*** | Center for Libertarian Studies | Columns from the *Rothbard-Rockwell Report*, ed. [[Lew Rockwell]], preface by JoAnn Rothbard | | 1999 / 2002 | ***A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II*** | Ludwig von Mises Institute | ⚠️ Gordon gives 1999; it is usually catalogued as 2002 (ed. Joseph Salerno; not verified). Outline: [[Other Major Works#A History of Money and Banking in the United States]] | | 2007 | ***The Betrayal of the American Right*** | Ludwig von Mises Institute | Manuscript from the 1970s, printed "virtually unchanged" | | 2017 | ***The Progressive Era*** | Ludwig von Mises Institute | Ed. Patrick Newman | | 2019 | ***Conceived in Liberty, vol. 5*** | Ludwig von Mises Institute | Ed. Patrick Newman, from Rothbard's longhand manuscript, lost for decades and identified by Newman in 2013 ([Wikipedia: Conceived in Liberty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceived_in_Liberty)) | ## Major papers and essays (selection) | Year | Title | Venue | Significance | |---|---|---|---| | 1956 | "Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics" | ⚠️ Usually cited in *On Freedom and Free Enterprise*, ed. Mary Sennholz (Van Nostrand) (from memory, not verified) | Demonstrated preference; ordinal utility. Argues that voluntary exchange is the only welfare statement an economist can make ([Gordon](https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard)) | | 1960 | "The Mantle of Science" | In Schoeck & Wiggins (eds.), *Scientism and Values* | Against scientism and determinism in the study of man (Wikipedia describes the essay; the bibliographic details are from memory and should be verified) | | 1965 | "Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty" | *Left and Right* 1(1) | His strategic manifesto for alliances with the anti-war left | | 1965 | "The Spooner-Tucker Doctrine: An Economist's View" | *A Way Out* (cited in SEP) | Critique of individualist-anarchist monetary views, together with his debt to them | | 1971 | "Milton Friedman Unraveled" | *The Individualist* | Polemic against Friedman (Wikipedia; the year is from the essay's usual citation) | | 1976 | "Ludwig von Mises and Economic Calculation under Socialism" | In L. Moss (ed.), *The Economics of Ludwig von Mises* (Sheed and Ward), pp. 67–77 | An early statement that Mises's argument is about calculation, not knowledge (cited in Rothbard 1991, fn. 41) | | 1982 | "Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution" | *Cato Journal* 2(1) (Spring 1982), pp. 55–99 | Tort and nuisance approach to pollution (cited in the EoL introduction) | | 1988 | *Ludwig von Mises: Scholar, Creator, Hero* | Mises Institute (monograph) | Biography of his teacher | | 1991 | "The End of Socialism and the Calculation Debate Revisited" | *Review of Austrian Economics* 5(2), pp. 51–76 | "The problem is not knowledge, then, but calculability". The key text against conflating Mises with Hayek ([mises.org](https://mises.org/review-austrian-economics/end-socialism-and-calculation-debate-revisited)) | | 1992 | "Right-Wing Populism" | *Rothbard-Rockwell Report* | The paleolibertarian strategy, including "Outreach to the Rednecks" | | 1992 | "Anti-Buchanania: A Mini-Encyclopedia" | *Rothbard-Rockwell Report* (May 1992), pp. 1–13 | — | ## Journals he founded or edited | Years | Journal | Role | |---|---|---| | 1965–1968 | *Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought* | Founder and editor, with [[Leonard Liggio]] and George Resch | | 1969–1984 | *The Libertarian Forum* | Editor (co-editor [[Karl Hess]] until 1971) | | 1977– | *Journal of Libertarian Studies* | Founding editor (CLS) | | 1987–1997 | *Review of Austrian Economics* | Founding editor; continued as the *Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics* (Mises Institute) | | 1990–1995 | *Rothbard-Rockwell Report* | Co-writer with [[Lew Rockwell]] (published by Blumert's CLS). The start year is approximate. | ## Introductions and forewords (selection) - Introduction to Frank A. Fetter, *Capital, Interest, and Rent* (Sheed Andrews and McMeel, 1977) - Foreword to Mises, *The Theory of Money and Credit* (Liberty Fund, 1981) - "The Essential von Mises" (Bramble Minibook, 1973) ## Where to read - Mises Institute library (full texts, free): https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard - PDFs used for this research: - *Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market*: https://cdn.mises.org/man_economy_and_state_with_power_and_market_3.pdf - *For a New Liberty*: https://cdn.mises.org/For%20a%20New%20Liberty%20The%20Libertarian%20Manifesto_3.pdf - *The Ethics of Liberty*: https://cdn.mises.org/The%20Ethics%20of%20Liberty_2.pdf - *America's Great Depression*: https://cdn.mises.org/Americas%20Great%20Depression_3.pdf - *What Has Government Done to Our Money?*: https://cdn.mises.org/What%20Has%20Government%20Done%20to%20Our%20Money_3.pdf - *The Mystery of Banking*: https://cdn.mises.org/Mystery%20of%20Banking_2.pdf ## Sources - Wikipedia, "Murray Rothbard," § Works (accessed 2026-10-21): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Rothbard - David Gordon, Mises Institute biography: https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard - SEP, "Libertarianism," bibliography: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/libertarianism/ - Rothbard 1991 (with footnotes citing the 1976 and 1988 works): https://mises.org/review-austrian-economics/end-socialism-and-calculation-debate-revisited - Copyright pages of the Mises Institute PDFs listed above