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From a certain perspective Murray Rothbard may be seen as the most important Austrian School economist in its hundred and fifty year history. The decisive aspect is how we define an “Austrian economist” — whether we understand it as a historical term in the Viennese tradition, or accepta more modern meaning, associated with the emigrating tradition after the Second World War. In the article we will demonstrate the most important theoretical contributions of Rothbard, which are mostly crucial for the Austrian economics. Along with it we will also attempt to show that they mean a lot for economics in general. In the end, we will describe the vital role Rothbard played in shaping Austrian tradition in the last generations.
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The subject of the article is the Rothbardian criticism of state interventionism in economy — specifically its binary variant. We will describe taxation and its various kinds (e.g. sales tax, income tax, corporate income tax, consumption tax), idea of progressive taxation and the concept of a neutral tax, and also the vision of a so-called fair tax. Binary intervention also includes wealth distribution, such as public spending and transfer payments, affecting real and consumption spending, with all the effects associated with social and welfare state activity. Along the teachings of Rothbard we will consider whether binary intervention is justifi ed from the point of view of praxeology and utility.
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It seemed that since Rothbard’s (2008 [1956]) exquisite Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics, one can make a case for the free market based on some modified concept of efficiency. Rothbard famously argued that being equipped with the notions of Pareto-superior moves and demonstrated preference suffices for the above purpose. Our agenda in the present paper is purely negative. First, we face the challenge — in our opinion, inadequately addressed in Austrian literature so far — of sharply defining Pareto-superior moves; to wit, how to evaluate whether a Pareto-superior move occurs; or, more specifically, what is the standard of comparison which would allow us to determine whether a given action constitutes a Pareto-superior move or not. Thus, we sieve out any approaches to social welfare that would be either trivial (and therefore uninteresting) and the ones that would be irreconcilable with fundamental Austrian premises (e.g., ordinal value scales and therefore non-aggregation of utility, etc.). As a result, we seemingly end up with what might constitute a specifically Austrian view on welfare, which non-surprisingly coincides with the actual positions taken by contemporary prominent Austrians themselves (for instance, see: Gordon, 1993; Herbener, 1997; Block 1995). Yet, the main thrust of our paper is to argue that this very position cannot withstand criticism, for it either makes an intuitively wrong prediction (as we demonstrate in our thought experiment) or it vitiates the argument for the free market from the concept of Pareto-efficiency.
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The paper is a continuation of the presentation of Rothbard’s criticism of state interventionism in economy. It is focused on its triangular version. As a triangular intervention we classify price controls, minimum wage, product regulation, including all sorts of monopolistic privileges, licenses and tariffs, production and employment standards, patents and copyright, and prohibition. The article also presents Rothbard’s views on the nature of monopoly and the possibility to create monopoly prices in the free market. Following Rothbard, we consider the mechanisms of statism and its side effects for entrepreneurial activity, violating not only the economic sphere, but also the ethics of liberty.
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This scientific article treats of libertarianism. Its fundamental premises are: conception of self-ownership, non-aggression axiom, proprietorship, free market, ‘no victim,no crime’ rule, aversion to the state institutions. The existence of libertarianism itselfis the most prominent subject of dispute between its two currents: minarchism andanarcho-capitalism. The adherents of the doctrine of minimal statism were FriedrichA. von Hayek and Milton Friedman, while Murray N. Rothbard and Hans-HermannHoppe were the followers of the free-market anarchy. The traditional, one-dimensional division into the left and right wing is not sufficient for the libertarianism tofind its place on the political scene. It is multidimensionality that characterises thelibertarian thought.
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The subject of the article is the concept of political system created by Murray Rothbard. His thought is part of the philosophy called libertarianism, whose representatives recognize the right of private property as the basic and only right for the human person. From this perspective, all problems regarding the limits of individual rights and freedoms are resolved. Based on natural law, Rothbard creates a vision of stateless order in which the individual is completely free from any coercion, as long as it does not violate the freedom of other individuals. Rothbard calls his system of government anarchocapitalism or market anarchism.
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In this article were presented proposals of Murray Newton Rothbard, one of the main representatives of libertarianism, on the police and the courts – services which are regarded by many as necessary to maintain within the equally necessary – in their opinion – the state. As we know, the state does not have its own money, in addition to those taken from their citizens by force in the form of taxes. Rothbard solutions are thus intended to prevent coercion, both on the side of using the services and those who provide these services. Due to the nature of libertarian ideas, which are characterized by simplicity and a strong emphasis on the element of freedom, this article is contained in the short form and does not indicate the specific imperatives of action.
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W artykule zostały przedstawione propozycje Murraya Newtona Rothbarda – jednego z głównych przedstawicieli libertarianizmu – na temat policji i sądów, czyli służb, które przez wielu są uważane jako konieczne do utrzymywania porządku w ramach równie koniecznego – ich zdaniem – państwa. Jak wiadomo, państwo nie posiada własnych pieniędzy, oprócz tych, które przymusem odbiera obywatelom w postaci podatków. Rozwiązania Rothbarda mają za zadanie uniknąć przymusu zarówno po stronie korzystających z usług, jak i tych, którzy te usługi świadczą. Ze względu na charakter libertariańskich poglądów, które cechuje prostota i silny nacisk na element wolności, artykuł ten zawiera się w krótkiej formie i nie wskazuje konkretnych imperatywów działania.
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