Mises Daily
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Murray N. Rothbard
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[Excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith . An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .] It used to be held that the famous “antimonopoly” common-law decisions of Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke (1552–1634), the eminent early