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Show Summary This week we are honored to talk to the man that Murray Rothbard called Mr. Erudition, The great Dr. David Gordon! Brian Doherty, in his foreword to Rothbard's Strictly Confidential, wrote that Gordon is "the only man around who knows as much as Rothbard did when it comes to the historical, philosophical and economic background of libertarianism. This week we talk to Dr. Gordon about philosophy, history, and economics. It’s an episode packed with great information, and we also learned some personal things about the late Murray Rothbard that most people don’t know. About the Guest David Gordon is a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He was educated at UCLA, where he earned his PhD in intellectual history. He is the author of Resurrecting Marx: The Analytical Marxists on Exploitation, Freedom, and Justice, The Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics,An Introduction to Economic Reasoning, and Critics of Marx. He is also editor of Secession, State, and Liberty and co-editor of H