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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: from 1978 to 1983, he was associated with the Libertarian Party Radical Caucus, allying himself with [[Justin Raimondo]], and [[Williamson Evers|Bill Evers]] and opposing the "low tax liberalism" espoused by 1980 presidential candidate [[Ed Clark]] and [[Cato Institute]] President [[Ed Crane|Edward H Crane III]]. He split with the Radical Caucus at the 1983 national convention, and aligned himself with what he called the "rightwing populist" wing of the party, notably [[Ron Paul]], who ran for President on the LP ticket 1988. 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. | 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: from 1978 to 1983, he was associated with the Libertarian Party Radical Caucus, allying himself with [[Justin Raimondo]], and [[Williamson Evers|Bill Evers]] and opposing the "low tax liberalism" espoused by 1980 presidential candidate [[Ed Clark]] and [[Cato Institute]] President [[Ed Crane|Edward H Crane III]]. He split with the Radical Caucus at the 1983 national convention, and aligned himself with what he called the "rightwing populist" wing of the party, notably [[Ron Paul]], who ran for President on the LP ticket 1988. 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"], | 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.html]. | ||
Rothbard opposed what he considered the overspecialization of the academy and sought to fuse the disciplines of economics, history, ethics, and political science to create a "science of liberty," as reflected in his many books and articles. His approach was influenced by the arguments of Ludwig von Mises in such books as ''[[Human Action]]'' and ''[[Theory and History]]'' that the foundations of the social sciences are in a logic of human action that can be known prior to empirical investigation. Rothbard sought to use such insights to guide historical research, especiallly in his work on economic history, but also in his four-volume history of the American Revolution, ''Conceived in Liberty''. | Rothbard opposed what he considered the overspecialization of the academy and sought to fuse the disciplines of economics, history, ethics, and political science to create a "science of liberty," as reflected in his many books and articles. His approach was influenced by the arguments of Ludwig von Mises in such books as ''[[Human Action]]'' and ''[[Theory and History]]'' that the foundations of the social sciences are in a logic of human action that can be known prior to empirical investigation. Rothbard sought to use such insights to guide historical research, especiallly in his work on economic history, but also in his four-volume history of the American Revolution, ''Conceived in Liberty''. | ||