Mises Daily
Author:
Michael A. Heilperin
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[Excerpted from chapter 3 of Studies in Economic Nationalism .] We now move to a period that, from the point of view of the present inquiry, is of particularly great importance. It extends over roughly 300 years — the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries — and involves the birth and consolidation of the modern concept of the national state. The