“The problem is that he originated nothing that was true, and that whatever he originated was wrong.”

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

On Adam Smith.
An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995)

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