To Understand Economics, First Understand Private Property

Tags: Money and Banking, World History

03/12/2021 Chris Calton

Rothbard recognized that money and exchange could not develop without first establishing private property. So Rothbard also recognized that it was important to develop theories of how private property might come about.

Original Article: "To Understand Economics, First Understand Private Property"

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