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First published 1961

The Fallacy of the 'Public Sector'

by Murray N. Rothbard

New Individualist Review (Summer 1961): 3-7; The Logic of Action Two (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1997), pp. 171-179. An edition that preserves the Logic pagination in PDF is here.Updated May 10, 2010

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Author: Murray N. Rothbard
First published: 1961
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License: Believed to be in the public domain: this work was published in the 1932-1963 window when US copyright had to be renewed after 28 years, and no renewal was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. Not independently confirmed.

Liberty, ethics & philosophy

Rothbard argues that the concept of a distinct public sector lacks theoretical coherence, critiquing intellectual justifications for government economics.

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Is The Fallacy of the 'Public Sector' free to download?: Yes. The complete HTML downloads directly from this page (29.6 KB). There is no signup, no account and no paywall.
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Who wrote The Fallacy of the 'Public Sector'?: Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was an American economist, economic historian, and libertarian political philosopher, and perhaps Ludwig von Mises’s most important American student, attending Mises’s NYU seminar in the 1950s. He earned a B.A. This archive holds 95 of Rothbard's works.

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Murray N. Rothbard 1926–1995

Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was an American economist, economic historian, and libertarian political philosopher, and perhaps Ludwig von Mises’s most important American student, attending Mises’s NYU seminar in the 1950s. Read more about Murray N. Rothbard.

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