The Ethics of Liberty.
First Edition of Murray Rothbard's Masterpiece The Ethics of Liberty
The Ethics of Liberty.
ROTHBARD, Murray N.
$400.00
Item Number: 140921
Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1982.
First edition of Rothbard’s greatest contribution to the politics of freedom. Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition.
First published in 1982, The Ethics of Liberty is a masterpiece of argumentation, and shockingly radical in its conclusions. Rothbard says that the very existence of the state — the entity with a monopoly privilege to invade private property — is contrary to the ethics of liberty. A society without a state is not only viable; it is the only one consistent with natural rights.