All Articles tagged civil war

• Articles
  March 21, 2020 CDT
  Rothbard on the Economics of Slavery
  Mark Thornton

  Published here for the first time is Rothbard's note on the economics of antebellum slavery. Mark Thornton comments on the paper, which criticizes the method of the New Economic History.

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• Articles
  June 17, 2019 CDT
  Beginning the Welfare State: Civil War Veterans’ Pensions
  Murray Rothbard

  Never-before-published essay from Murray Rothbard on one of the first significant welfare programs in the United States: pensions to Union war veterans.

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