I just finished reading Man Economy and State and started Power and Market. Though I haven't investigated carefully, why do I feel that many chapters of the latter are complete copies of the former? Also why combine these two books into one?
"But the publisher decided to cut the last part of the book, a part that appeared years later as Power and Market. This is the section that applies the theory presented in the first 1,000 pages to matters of government intervention."
Source.
thanks.
Still, Rothbard doesn't seem to be the kind of guy who coped his own writings word by word from a previous chapter to a latter one. I am tempted to believe that what the publisher did was more than cutting the last part, but stripping and reorganizing...
My guess is that it was decided that the parts that were cut out required some kind of base/background if they were to be published as a standalone work...so just as some of the original MES was edited out, I wouldn't be surprised if some of it that actually stayed in MES got added to the rest so that it could form a coherent work as PM.
MiddleWay: I just finished reading Man Economy and State and started Power and Market. Though I haven't investigated carefully, why do I feel that many chapters of the latter are complete copies of the former? Also why combine these two books into one?
The final part of MES on interventionism is basically a watered-down version of Power & Market which was too controversial for the publisher.
One can skip over this part and go right into Power & Market.