Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Eric S. Raymond, David D. Friedman, Murray Rothbard, Jan Narveson, J. Neil Schulman, Giorgio Fidenato, Leonardo Facco, Karl Hess, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Lew Rockwell, Stefan Molyneux, Thomas Woods, Spencer Heath, Joseph Sobran, Justin Raimondo, Robert P. Murphy, Walter Block, Peter Leeson, Mark Thornton, Robert Higgs, Pierre Lemieux, Carlo Lottieri, Mary Ruwart, James J. Martin, Stephan Kinsella, Patri Friedman, Bryan Caplan, Roderick Long, Joseph Salerno, George H. Smith, Claire Wolfe, Wendy McElroy, Jeffrey Tucker, Jesús Huerta de Soto, Sean Hastings, Sharon Presley, Edward Stringham, Brian Doherty, Doug Casey, Bruce L. Benson, Carl Watner, Anthony de Jasay, Adam Back, Scott Horton, Susan Hogarth, Victor Koman, Henri Lepage, Less Antman. Excerpt: Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 - January 7, 1995) was an American author and economist of the Austrian School who helped define capitalist libertarianism and popularized a form of free-market anarchism he termed "anarcho-capitalism." Rothbard wrote over twenty books and is considered a centrally important figure in the American libertarian movement. Building on the Austrian School's concept of spontaneous order, support for a free market in money production and condemnation of central planning, Rothbard advocated abolition of coercive government control of society and the economy. He considered the monopoly force of government the greatest danger to liberty and the long-term well-being of the populace, labeling the State as nothing but a "gang of thieves writ large"-the locus of the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society. Rothbard concluded that all services provided by monopoly governments could be provided more efficiently by the private sector. He viewed many regulations and laws ostensibly promulgated for the "public interest" as self-i...
