Man, Economy, and State

Man, Economy, and State: A treatise on economic principles is a 1962 book of Austrian School economics by Murray Rothbard (orig. abridged ed.).^[a] It was originally intended as a textbook form of Human Action by Ludwig von Mises, but became its own treatise after he realized original work was needed to flesh out Mises' ideas.^[2]

  Man, Economy, and State
with
Power and Market

First edition (volume I)
Author	Murray Rothbard
Original title	Man, Economy, and State: A treatise on economic principles volume I[a]
Language	English
Subject	Economics
Publisher	D. van Nostrand (1962), Institute for Humane Studies (1981), Ludwig von Mises Institute (1993, 2004)
Publication date	1962 (abridged)[a] 1981, 1993, 2004 (full text)
Publication place	United States
Media type	print
Pages	987 (abridged)[a] 1,506 (full text)
ISBN	0-8147-5380-9 (1962), 0-910884-27-7 (1981), 0-8402-1223-2 (1993), 0-945466-30-7 (2004)
OCLC	339220
See also Rothbard (1970) Power and Market.[a]

According to Salerno, the book Power and Market: Government and the Economy "was originally written as the third volume of Man, Economy, and State, but was published separately eight years later".^[3][4] It was reunited with the 4th edition of Man, Economy, and State in 2004 in the volume sub-titled "The Scholar's Edition" from the Ludwig von Mises Institute.^[3][5] The author analyzes the negative effects of the various kinds of government intervention, and argues that the State is neither necessary nor useful.^{[citation needed]}

Notes

1. The original publisher deleted the final eight chapters from the original publication, so the 1962 book is effectively an abridged edition, although published instead as "Volume I".^[1]: xliii In 1970, the abridged chapters were published as the title Power and Market.^[1]: xliii The 2009^[1] and later editions restore the chapters to a single volume, combining the discussion of both microeconomics and macroeconomics.