John Locke vs. the Mercantilists
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John Locke, the Protestant Scholastic, was essentially in the hard-money, metallist, anti-inflationist tradition of the Scholastics; his opponents, on the other hand, helped set the tone for the inflationist schemers and projectors of the next century, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).
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