Salmasius: High-Water Mark of Early-Modern Interest Theory
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Salmasius pointed out that moneylending was a business like any other, and thereby entitled to charge a market price. Competition lowers the price. If one doesn’t like high interest rates, the more usurers the better, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).
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