id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2037 Murray Rothbard - Wikipedia .html text/html 13650 1894 60 Murray Newton Rothbard (/ˈrɒθbɑːrd/; March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American heterodox economist of the Austrian School,[1][2][3][4] economic historian[5][6] and political theorist.[7] Rothbard was the founder and leading theoretician of anarcho-capitalism, a staunch advocate of historical revisionism and a central figure in the 20th-century American libertarian movement. Murray thought it was the best possible way to start a day".[36] Rothbard was irreligious and agnostic about God,[37][38] describing himself as a "mixture of an agnostic and a Reform Jew".[39] Despite identifying as an agnostic and an atheist, he was critical of the "left-libertarian hostility to religion".[40] In Rothbard's later years, many of his friends anticipated that he would convert to Catholicism, but he never did.[41] The New York Times obituary called Rothbard "an economist and social philosopher who fiercely defended individual freedom against government intervention".[29] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2037.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2037.txt