MURRAY ROTHBARD BEGAN WORK ON this magnum opus on January 1, On May 5, 1959 Rothbard wrote to his mentor, Ludwig von Mises, informing him, “È finito!”2 The more than seven years that it took Rothbard to complete Man, Economy, and State elapsed during, what was up to that time, one of the most sterile and retrogressive decades in the history of scientific economics, dating back to the birth of the science in the systematic treatise of Richard Cantillon published in In | Man Economy and State with Power and Market Murray N. Rothbard Man Economy and State A treatise on Economic Principles WITH Power and Market Government and the Economy Murray N. .
