Introduction to the Second Edition of Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market. Murray Rothbard began work on this magnum opus on January 1, 1952.[1] On May 5, 1959 Rothbard wrote to his mentor, Ludwig von Mises, informing him, “È finito!”[2] The more-than-seven years that it took Rothbard to complete Man, Economy, and State elapsed during, what was up to that time, one of the most sterile and retrogressive decades in the history of scientific economics, dating back to the birth of the science in the systematic treatise of Richard Cantillon published in 1755.[3] In view of the progressive … Continue reading The Genius of Rothbard