Editing Murray Rothbard (section)

=== Science and scientism ===
In an essay condemning "[[scientism]] in the study of man", Rothbard rejected the application of [[causal determinism]] to human beings, arguing that the actions of human beings—as opposed to those of everything else in nature—are not determined by prior causes, but by "[[Libertarianism (metaphysics)|free will]]".<ref>Rothbard, Murray (1960). [https://mises.org/rothbard/mantle.asp "The Mantle of Science."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140914002839/https://mises.org/rothbard/mantle.asp |date=September 14, 2014 }} Reprinted from ''Scientism and Values'', Helmut Schoeck and James W. Wiggins, eds. (Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand), 1960, pp. 159–80, {{ISBN|978-0405004360}}; ''The Logic of Action One: Method, Money, and the Austrian School'' (Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 1997), pp. 3–23. {{ISBN|978-1858980157}}</ref> He argued that "determinism as applied to man, is a self-contradictory thesis, since the man who employs it relies implicitly on the existence of free will"{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}. Rothbard opposed what he considered the overspecialization of the academy and sought to fuse the disciplines of economics, history, ethics and political science to create a "science of liberty". Rothbard described the moral basis for his [[anarcho-capitalist]] position in two of his books: ''[[For a New Liberty]]'', published in 1973; and ''[[The Ethics of Liberty]]'', published in 1982. In his ''[[Power and Market]]'' (1970), Rothbard describes how a stateless economy might function.{{Third-party inline|date=April 2023}}