For over 40 years, I have watched university economists attack Murray Rothbard in print. They never laid a glove on him. They had certain things in common. They never published anything comparable to his book, Man, Economy, and State (1962). They never published anything comparable to America’s Great Depression (1963). They did not publish widely in any mainstream scholarly journals. Their existence was not acknowledged by Keynesians. But they knew Rothbard was a second rater, and some of them even said so. Why was this? I offer this theory. He published in newsletters aimed at the general public. He published easy-to-read books on numerous … Continue reading What Bugs University Economists