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An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought is two-volume non-fiction work written by Murray N. Rothbard. Rothbard said he originally intended to write a "standard Adam Smith-to-the-present moderately sized book"; but expanded the scope of the project to include economists who preceded Smith and to comprise a multi-volume series. Rothbard completed only the first two volumes, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith and Classical Economics.


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

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

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