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in Memoriam

in Memoriam in Memoriam by Hans-Hermann Hoppe0 Murray Rothbard was born and raised in New York City as the only child of immigrant parents. His father, a chemist, came from Poland and his mother from Russia. Upon winning a scholarship, he attended private schools and then went on to study economics at Columbia University, where, in 1956, he received his Ph.D. with a dissertation written under the economic historian Joseph Dorfman. For more than a decade beginning in 1949, Rothbard also participated in Ludwig von Mises' private seminar at New York University. After working several years for various foundations, most notably the William Volker Fund, he taught at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute from 1966 until 1986. From 1986 until his death Rothbard was the S.J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He was Vice President of Academic Affairs of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and editor of its Review of Austrian Economics; co-founder and member of the board of the Center for Libertarian Studies and editor of its Journal of Libertarian Studies and the Rothbard-Rockwell Report·, and co-founder and president of the John Randolph Society. While at his permanent residence in Manhattan, he died, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines de Gruyter

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Publisher
de Gruyter
Copyright
Copyright © 1995 by the
ISSN
2194-5799
eISSN
2153-1552
DOI
10.1515/jeeh-1995-0102
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Abstract

in Memoriam by Hans-Hermann Hoppe0 Murray Rothbard was born and raised in New York City as the only child of immigrant parents. His father, a chemist, came from Poland and his mother from Russia. Upon winning a scholarship, he attended private schools and then went on to study economics at Columbia University, where, in 1956, he received his Ph.D. with a dissertation written under the economic historian Joseph Dorfman. For more than a decade beginning in 1949, Rothbard also participated in Ludwig von Mises' private seminar at New York University. After working several years for various foundations, most notably the William Volker Fund, he taught at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute from 1966 until 1986. From 1986 until his death Rothbard was the S.J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He was Vice President of Academic Affairs of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and editor of its Review of Austrian Economics; co-founder and member of the board of the Center for Libertarian Studies and editor of its Journal of Libertarian Studies and the Rothbard-Rockwell Report·, and co-founder and president of the John Randolph Society. While at his permanent residence in Manhattan, he died,

Journal

Journal des Économistes et des Études Humainesde Gruyter

Published: Mar 1, 1995

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