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Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment

by on March 2, 2026

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Rothbard at 100 - final cover - gold - susiRothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment, Stephan Kinsella and Hans-Hermann Hoppe, eds. (Papinian Press and The Saif House, 2026).

Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was one of the world’s greatest champions of human liberty. In his honor, and to commemorate his 100th birthday, on March 2, 2026, the Property and Freedom Society (PFS) has assembled this collection of tributes to and commentary on him and his work by PFS members, including many who knew him personally.

This book is released in digital form today, March 2, 2026, on Murray’s 100th birthday. Print, in both paperback and deluxe hardcover, and kindle/epub/pdf versions will be made available shortly.

Contents

Front Matter

Part 1*

  1. Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Coming of Age with Murray”
  2. Jeffrey F. Barr, “The Last Lecture”
  3. Thomas J. DiLorenzo, “The Inspiring and Courageous Intellect of Murray Rothbard”
  4. Douglas E. French, “Remembering Murray Rothbard: Teacher, Friend, and Inspiration”
  5. Jörg Guido Hülsmann, “Three Channels of Asset Inflation”
  6. Lee I. Iglody, “The Man Across the Hall: My Time with Professor Rothbard”
  7. Thomas Jacob, “Murray Rothbard, Mises University 1990, and the Power of Living Institutions”
  8. Stephan Kinsella, “Mises, Rothbard, Hoppe: An Indispensable Framework”
  9. Jeffrey A. Tucker, “The Murray Rothbard I Knew”

Part 2

  1. Saifedean Ammous, “Murray Rothbard: An Ode to an Intellectual Hero”
  2. Juan F. Carpio, “Murray Rothbard, Statelessness, and the Kritarchy: Five Millennia of Evidence for Competitive Lawmaking”
  3. Fernando Fiori Chiocca, “The First Knight of Libertarianism”
  4. Jeff Deist, “Appreciating Rothbard’s Political Genius”
  5. David Dürr, “Encountering Rothbard: Property Rights as the Key to Anarchy”
  6. Alessandro Fusillo, “Rothbard, Philosopher of Law”
  7. Sean Gabb, “Rothbard: An Appreciation from England”
  8. David Howden, “Privatizing Entry, Dissolving State Borders: Immigration Policy as the Apex of Rothbardian Libertarianism”
  9. Thorsten Polleit, “Thank you, Murray Rothbard, For Your Extreme ‘Defense of Extreme Apriorism’”
  10. Josef Šíma, “Life in a World Without the Rothbardian One Big Liberty Master Button”
  11. Rahim Taghizadegan, “Murray N. Rothbard and the Demystification of Economics”

Appendix

Back Matter

*Part 1 consists of PFS authors who personally knew or met Rothbard

Audio

Thanks to volunteer efforts from Jorge Besada, AI-assisted audio narration of the main chapters is available at the this PFS Youtube Playlist, and will also be podcast on the Property and Freedom Podcast podcast in upcoming weeks. The mp3 files may also be downloaded in this zip file.

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Biographical

Bibliographical

Correspondence

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Tributes/obituaries/memories/commentary

  1. See The Free Market (June 1986), p. 2, listing papers in “Man, Economy, and Liberty: A Conference in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard.” See also: Jeffrey Tucker and Lew Rockwell, “Man, Economy, and Liberty” (17 November 2009) (Tucker interviews Rockwell about Rothbard’s festschrift, published in 1986 in honor of Rothbard’s sixtieth birthday); Rothbard, Man, Economy, and Liberty (1 March 1986) (Rothbard comments and responds to the speakers and papers presented at the “Man, Economy and Liberty” colloquium hosted by the Mises Institute; backup Youtube); Hoppe, Book Review of Walter Block and Llewellyn H.Rockwell, Jr., eds., Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard, Rev. Austrian Econ. (Vol. 4 Num. 1, 1989). See also Timothy Virkkala, “Bestschrift,” Liberty (September, 1989), p. 63. [↩]
  2. “I prefer to remember him as the charming, brilliant, and joyous friend he had been in Liberty‘s formative years. He was the wittiest man I have ever met, the best man with whom to spend an evening in a bar that I ever knew. I miss him enormously.” [↩]
  3. excerpted here: “Shortly before Murray [Rothbard] died, I called him to tell him of my plans to run for Congress once again in the 1996 election. He was extremely excited and very encouraging. One thing I am certain of—if Murray could have been with us during the presidential primary in 2008, he would have had a lot to say about it and fun saying it. He would have been very excited. His natural tendency to be optimistic would have been enhanced. He would have loved every minute of it. He would have pushed the “revolution,” especially since he contributed so much to preparing for it. I can just imagine how enthralled he would have been to see college kids burning Federal Reserve notes. He would have led the chant we heard at so many rallies: “End the Fed! End the Fed!” [↩]
  4. Duke is former counsel to the Mises Institute. “Murray N. Rothbard is the most intelligent and informed man I have met in my entire life! He like Ludwig von Mises, refused to speak and write only the truth. This hurt Mises and Rothbard financially their entire lives. They were ridiculed by the mainstream economists, government, new media, academics. But they held to the truth that they knew in their minds and hearts. I knew Murray N. Rothbard personally and he was kind to everyone. He was so brilliant that most people were nervous when they met him. Murray usually told a joke or said something weird, strange, funny or whatever to make people comfortable. He did not laugh; he cackled. He was jovial. I had lunches and dinners with him and spoke with him at the Mises institute. I was the attorney for the Mises Institute in the early years. – JRD” [↩]
  5. Also discussed in David Gordon, The History of Our Movement, Mises Daily (05/17/2013). There was another discussion of Rothbard that was part of this Oral History Project, by David Gordon, Joe Salerno, and Lew Rockwell, from Oct. 2018, discussing Rothbard extensively, but as discussed here, it has unfortunately been taken down. [↩]

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As noted here, the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society will be held from Thursday, September 17, 2026 to Tuesday, September 22, 2026.

PFS Members or others interested in attending should contact Mr. Thomas Jacob ([email protected]) (Administrative Secretary/ Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements.

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