The Gold Standard: Hardcover 
Description
Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was one of the world’s greatest champions of human liberty. In his honor, and to commemorate his 100th birthday on March 2, 2026, the Property and Freedom Society (PFS) assembled and released online this collection of tributes to and commentary on him and his work by PFS members and friends. This deluxe hardcover edition is now available for pre-order worldwide.
As the essays in this volume attest, Rothbard was, in our eyes, the most important social theorist of the twentieth century. Rothbard built on Misesian Austrian economics and combined it with a radical, uncompromising individualist libertarian political philosophy that inspired the formation of the PFS. The PFS, founded in 2006 by Hans Hoppe eleven years after Murray Rothbard’s death, is naturally home to admirers of Rothbard and his brand of Austrian economics and anarcho-libertarianism.
The essays in this Gedenkschrift, by an international array of PFS scholars, include personal reflections and memories as well as substantive contributions related to Rothbard’s wide-spanning work on Austrian economics and the science of liberty. Many of the founding members of the PFS, and contributors to this volume, knew Rothbard personally, some intimately — such as Hans Hoppe, Rothbard’s most intimate associate, partner, friend, and student for the last decade of his life; Rothbard’s students Doug French, Lee Iglody, and Jeff Barr; and colleagues such as Tom DiLorenzo and Jeffrey Tucker. French, Jeff Deist, and DiLorenzo are three past Presidents of the Mises Institute.
The essays are arranged into two parts: Part 1, by those who knew or met Rothbard, and Part 2, others who never met him but who have been deeply influenced by his work.
About the editors
The editors are longtime friends and associates and have built on and extended the work of Murray Rothbard in their own writing.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe is the founder of the Property and Freedom Society, Professor Emeritus of Economics at UNLV, former Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and former Editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies. He has received multiple awards, including the Gary G. Schlarbaum Award for lifetime defense of liberty (2006), the Murray N. Rothbard Medal of Freedom (2015), and the Caminos de la Libertad “A Life for Freedom” Award (2024). He was Murray Rothbard’s most intimate associate, partner, friend, and student for the last decade of his life.
Stephan Kinsella has been a close associate of Hans Hoppe since meeting Rothbard and Hoppe in 1994. A member of the PFS since its inception, he is a libertarian writer and retired attorney in Houston. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (2023), Against Intellectual Property (2008), and other works.
