Mises Daily
Author:
Dan Sanchez
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Pop quiz: who did Murray Rothbard call “the first Greek economic thinker”? Aristotle, you say? Plato? Nope. To quote Rothbard himself: The honor of being the first Greek economic thinker goes to the poet Hesiod. [1] Now, Hesiod was a farmer-turned-poet in a backwater town in the Greek archaic period, so that’s quite a compliment. But Rothbard is