Matt McCaffrey: Revisiting Rothbard

Murray Rothbard would have celebrated his 90th birthday this past week, so the Mises Institute held a reception in his honor at the ISFLC conference in Washington DC. Joining us to explain why Rothbard remains so relevant today is University of Manchester professor Matt McCaffrey, a former Mises Institute Fellow and editor of our new Rothbard Reader (https://mises.org/RothbardReader). Matt discusses Rothbard's amazing range of interests and knowledge, his relationship with Mises, his great opus Man, Economy, and State — written in his early 30s — and his enduring legacy in a sea of forgotten mainstream economists. To read Professor McCaffrey's and Professor Joe Salerno's introduction to the Rothbard Reader, see http://mises.org/blog/introducing-rothbard-reader. And order your copy here: http://store.mises.org/Rothbard-Reader-P11018.aspx