Milton Friedman Unraveled

Murray N. Rothbard
romanian

The libertarian movement has coasted far too long on the intellectually lazy path of failing to make distinctions, or failing to discriminate, of failing to make a rigorous search to distinguish truth from error in the views of those who claim to be its members or allies. It is almost as if any passing joker who mumbles a few words about “freedom” is automatically clasped to our bosom as a member of the one, big, libertarian family. As our movement grows in influence, we can no longer afford the luxury of this intellectual sloth. It is high time to identify Milton Friedman for what he really is. It is high time to call a spade a spade, and a statist a statist.

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The Myth of Efficiency

Murray N. Rothbard
romanian

By recourse to the Austrian theory of value (ordinal and centered on the human person), Rothbard exposes in this short - but consistent - article the fallacies implied in all the endeavors to transgress the ethics of private property in order to justify aggression by means of social arithmetic.

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Postscript: Why Socialist Economy is „Impossible”

Joseph T. Salerno
romanian

The impossibility of economic calculation in a socialist commonwealth: a brief and strictly Misesian explanation of the famous 1920 proof, in light of Ludwig von Mises's own comprehensive exposition in Human Action.

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