Murray Rothbard, who left us much too soon, would have been 85 today. Mises died just before Hayek won the Nobel Prize, and Murray died on the cusp of a renaissance of Austrian economics. If only he could have seen all these great developments — the Austrian Scholars Conference, the Internet, the wild success of LRC and Mises.org, the rising generation of bright young Austrians, the Ron Paul phenomenon, and much else. And indeed we can hardly imagine the thunderous cheers he would have received from the hundreds and thousands of young (and old) libertarians who, having first heard of … Continue reading Happy Birthday, Murray Rothbard