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I know for sure that History of Economic Thought was suppose to have a third volume which brought it too the present. Sadly Rothbard broke one of his own rules in creating volumes. To paraphrase him, he said that scholars shouldn't label their works volume I because rarely do the volumes get completed.
'Men do not change, they unmask themselves' - Germaine de Stael
Did he ever have the manuscripts for the third volume near completed? We could what Engels did to Marx and throw it all together with "MANUSCRIPT ENDS HERE" to signify the end.
Bert: Did he ever have the manuscripts for the third volume near completed? We could what Engels did to Marx and throw it all together with "MANUSCRIPT ENDS HERE" to signify the end.
Good question to ask the faculty.
I think he finished Conceived in Liberty, though I have not read it.
He only finished two volumes of his wonderful and epic History of Economic Thought.
Government Explained 2: The Special Piece of Paper
Law without Government
Rothbard is such a treat to listen to and read. He's such a profound intellectual giant and he's like the professor I've never had. I feel like our geneeration was robbed of someone truly great. Now, we are stuck with an unproprtionate amount of unoriginal, intellectually insipid professors who cannot teach if their lives depended on it. Not to mention the seemingly endless amount of dolts that fill the seats in classrooms today.
If only I were many years younger and could have taken one of his courses!
"Throughout his career, he continued to read voraciously in the area of American revisionist history. His four-volume history of colonial America, Conceived in Liberty, never received the recognition it deserved, either in conservative circles (it was too libertarian) or professional historical circles (it was too libertarian). His notes for the long-missing fifth volume are entombed in a now-defunct technology: a voice recorder system for which no playback machine exists."
Gary North in Murray N. Rothbard - In Memoriam
He never finished his History of Economic Thought, though Ralph Raico mentions in one of the Mises University lectures he gave a year or two ago, that Guido Hulsman's Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism is a great "third part" to Rothbard's History. It gives an enormous investigation into the contributions of the Austrian school from Menger to Rothbard. I am about 200 pages through this tome, and it is absolutely fantastic.