Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Author:
Gael J. Campan
Online Publish Date:
Volume 2, No. 1 (Spring 1999) One of the most dependable ways of demonstrating the inconsistency of a general principle, theory, or proposition is to deduce some necessarily contradictory consequences from its major premises. In 1849, Gustave de Molinari confronted his fellows at the Journal Des Economistes —a bastion of free-market thought—with
