“John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.”

—  Murray N. Rothbard, book An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995)

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