Mises Daily
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Murray N. Rothbard
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[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought , vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith . ] Bacon and Descartes agreed on one crucial and destructive point: the severing of reason and thought from empirical data. Sixteenth-century Spain has well been called the Indian summer of Scholasticism. After