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 . ] “The Sermon of Saint Bernardino of Siena” (1784) Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) The great mind, and the great systematizer, of scholastic economics was a paradox among paradoxes: a strict