Barthélemy de Laffemas: The First Major French Mercantilist

06/17/2010 Murray N. Rothbard

Barthélemy de Laffemas comes to our attention because of the dozens of execrable pamphlets he wrote on behalf of the mercantile system that he was helping to put into place in France, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).

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