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Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy

Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray N. Rothbard is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

Author
Murray N. Rothbard
First published
1984
Format
PDF and EPUB
Pages
107
ISBN
9781610161923
License
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

War & foreign policy

This fiery monograph shows a side of Murray Rothbard not seen in his theoretical treatise: his ability to employ "power elite" analysis to understand the relationship between money, power, and war.

Rather than allow the left to dominate this approach to history; Rothbard shows how wealthy elites are only able to manipulate world affairs via their connection to state power. Those mainstream historians might deride Rothbard's history as a "conspiracy" approach, Rothbard himself is only out to show that world affairs are not random historical forces but the consequence of choices and paths chosen by real human beings.

Here he gives the grim details of how a network of banks, bond dealers, and Wall Street insiders have both favored war and profited from it.

The contents of this volume include a long and thoughtful introduction by Anthony Gregory and an afterword by Justin Raimondo.

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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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18 chapters · 25,438 words · free to read here

  1. Introduction to the 2011 Edition
  2. Introduction to the 1995 Edition
  3. Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy
  4. J. P. Morgan
  5. An Aggressive Asian Policy
  6. Teddy Roosevelt and the “Lone Nut”
  7. Morgan, Wilson, and War
  8. The Fortuitous Fed
  9. The Round Table
  10. The CFR
  11. Rockefeller, Morgan, and War
  12. The Guatemalan Coup
  13. JFK and the Establishment
  14. LBJ and the Power Elite
  15. Henry A. Kissinger
  16. The Trilateral Commission
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
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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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