Tuesday, March 29, 2011

History of the Libertarian Movement...

...that I was unaware of. According to Will Wilkinson,
Charles Koch founded the Cato Institute in 1977 with Ed Crane and Murray Rothbard, an iconoclastic "anarcho-capitalist" economist and political theorist.
That's right, folks, Rothbard was a beltway libertarian! I am sure there are some juicy stories--perhaps a great falling out--that I have not yet heard. Feel free to post all the seedy details in the comments.

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ADDENDUM:
I should have clicked a few more links before blegging for details.

2 comments:

Steven Horwitz said...

You haven't read Doherty's book Radicals for Capitalism?

Will Luther said...

It is on the shelf, but I've yet to crack it. I prefer controversy in small doses.