Mises Daily
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Karen De Coster, CPA
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[ Originally published June 7, 2006. ] The “father of modern economics,” said economist Murray Rothbard, was a “gallicized Irish merchant, banker, and adventurer who wrote the first treatise on economics more than four decades before the publication of the Wealth of Nations .” (Rothbard 1995, p. 345) Richard Cantillon’s Essay on the Nature of