The Founding of the Federal Reserve

Lecture presented Murray N. Rothbard at the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s “Seminar on Money and Government” conference held at the University of Houston in Texas; October 27, 1984. http://mises.org

Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was America’s greatest radical libertarian author — writing authoritatively about ethics, philosophy, economics, American history, and the history of ideas. He presented the most fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of government, and he refined thinking about the self-ownership and non-coercion principles.

Biography of Murray N. Rothbard
http://mises.org/about/3249

Links to online books and essays by Murray N. Rothbard:

The Case Against the Fed
http://mises.org/resources/3430
Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F1FDA55FD094AAE1

What Has Government Done to Our Money?
http://mises.org/resources/617
Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=85F528FA4B8DB51D

A History of Money and Banking in the United States
http://mises.org/resources/1022
Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6D09BB9900764D5F

Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I
http://mises.org/resources/3985
Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C60128B8E98929D7

Classical Economics: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II
http://mises.org/resources/3986
Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=08BADEE86CA3F02F

The Ethics of Liberty
http://mises.org/resources/1179
Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=250D7BDE36219FA6

For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
http://mises.org/resources/1010
Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BD6EC8BF3D7777F3

Man, Economy, and State
http://mises.org/resources/1082

The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar
http://mises.org/resources/611

America’s Great Depression
http://mises.org/resources/694

Making Economic Sense
http://mises.org/resources/899

Panic of 1819 Reactions and Policies
http://mises.org/resources/695

Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure
http://mises.org/resources/2668

The Essential von Mises
http://mises.org/resources/3081

Power and Market: Government and the Economy
http://mises.org/resources/196

Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy
http://mises.org/resources/1223

The Mystery of Banking
http://mises.org/resources/614

Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard
http://mises.org/resources/5777

Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays
http://mises.org/resources/3147

Rothbard vs. the Philosophers
http://mises.org/resources/4983

Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty
http://mises.org/resources/1016

The Betrayal of the American Right
http://mises.org/resources/3316

World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals
http://mises.org/journals/jls/9_1/9_1_5.pdf

Education: Free and Compulsory
http://mises.org/resources/2689

Conceived in Liberty, Volume 1: A New Land, A New People
http://mises.org/resources/3006

Conceived in Liberty, Volume 2: The American Colonies in the First Half of the 18th Century
http://mises.org/resources/3007

Conceived in Liberty, Volume 3: Advance to Revolution, 1760-1775
http://mises.org/resources/3030

Conceived in Liberty, Volume 4: The Revolutionary War
http://mises.org/resources/3031

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