“The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.”

— Murray N. Rothbard

As quoted in "An intellectual Autobiography" by Bryan Kaplan, in I Chose Liberty : Autobiographies of Contemporary Libertarians (2010) edited by Walter Block, p. 75.

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