Facts and Counterfactuals in Economic Law

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Jörg Guido Hülsmann

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Ludwig von Mises emphasized that economics is the foremost political science of our age. As such, the clarification of the facts on which this science is built, and of the way political conclusions are based on them, is of the greatest practical importance.

Volume 17, Number 1 (2003)

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Hülsmann, Jörg Guido. "Facts and Counterfactuals in Economic Law." Journal of Libertarian Studies 17, No. 1 (2003): 57–102.

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