Aristotle on Private Property and Money

12/07/2009 Murray N. Rothbard

Although Aristotle, in the Greek tradition, scorned moneymaking and was scarcely a partisan of laissez-faire, he set forth a trenchant argument in favor of private property and delivered a cogent attack on communism, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).

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