The Greatness of Man, Economy, and State Mises Wire - Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. Murray Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State (MES) is one of the two greatest books on free market economics of the twentieth century. The other, of course, is Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action. Rothbard at first intended his book to be an easier-to-understand guidebook to Human Action, but it soon turned into a major treatise in its own right. Rothbard was too much of a creative genius to be limited to summarizing someone else’s book. In this week’s article, I’ll explain some of the reasons why MES is great, and why you need to read it.
Mises InstituteThe Greatness of Man, Economy, and StateMises said that MES made an “epochal” contribution to economics and that it made many important theoretical innovations.June 13, 2025 158