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In the course of his life, Rothbard was associated
with a number of political thinkers and movements.
 During the early 1950s, he studied with the great
Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises and began
working for the William Volker Fund.  During the
late 1950s, Rothbard was briefly an intimate of
Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden, whom he would
later criticize strongly.  In the late 1960s,
Rothbard advocated an alliance with the New Left
anti-war movement, on the grounds that the
conservative movement had been completely subsumed
by the statist establishment.  It was during this
phase that he associated with Karl Hess and
founded Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian
Thought with Leonard Liggio and George Resch. From
1969 to 1984 he edited the Libertarian Forum.

During the 1970s and '80s, Rothbard was active in
the United_States_Libertarian_Party|Libertarian
Party.  He was frequently involved in the party's
internal politics, allying himself with Justin
Raimondo, Williamson Evers|Bill Evers, and Ron
Paul, and clashing with Ed Crane and supporters of
Russell Means.  In 1989, Rothbard left the
Libertarian Party and began building bridges to
the post-Cold War right.  He was the founding
president of the conservative-libertarian John
Randolph Club and supported the presidential
campaign of Pat Buchanan in 1992.  However, prior
to his death in Manhattan of a Myocardial
infarction|heart attack, Rothbard had become
disillusioned with the Buchanan movement.

In addition to his work on economics and political
theory, Rothbard also wrote on economic history. 
He is one of the few economic authors who have
studied and presented the pre-Adam Smith|Smithian
economic schools, such as the scholastics and the
physiocrats.  These are discussed in his
unfinished, multi-volume work "An Austrian
Perspective on the History of Economic Thought". 
His other books include "Man, Economy, and State"
(ISBN 0945466323), "Power and Market", "America's
Great Depression",
http://www.mises.org/rothbard/newliberty.asp "For
a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto",
"http://www.mises.org/rothbard/ethics/ethics.asp
The Ethics of Liberty", "The Case Against the
Fed", "What Has Government Done to Our Money?" and
the essay "Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult"
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard23.htm
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He was the academic vice president of the Ludwig
von Mises Institute and the Center for Libertarian
Studies, was a distinguished professor at the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and edited the
Rothbard-Rockwell Report with Lew Rockwell.

==External links==

* "http://www.mises.org/content/mnr.asp Murray N.
Rothbard: A Legacy of Liberty" by Lew Rockwell,
also includes links to audio recordings of
Rothbard and the complete text of several books.
* http://www.blackcrayon.com/people/rothbard/
BlackCrayon.com: People: Murray Rothbard
*
http://www.mises.org/studyGuideDisplay.asp?action=
AuthorListings&AuthorLast1=Rothbard&AuthorFirst1=M
urray%20N. Bibliography of Murray Rothbard
*
http://www.mises.org/journals/libertarianforum.asp
Archives of the Libertarian Forum
*
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1573
928097/103-1657973-9743010?v=glance An Enemy of
the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard, by
Justin Raimondo, Prometheus Books, 2000 

===Criticism===
* "http://www.khcc.org.uk/la/FL-1-2-2.pdf Why
anarcho-capitalism is a non-starter", a criticism
of Rothbard by Geoffrey Sampson