Mises Daily
Author:
Murray N. Rothbard
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[This article is excerpted from Conceived in Liberty (1975), volume 1, chapter 33, “Economics Begins to Dissolve the Theocracy: The Failure of Subsidized Production.” An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Floy Lilley, is available for download .] To return to the New England scene, the flourishing but harassed Massachusetts merchants