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12/09/2013 Mises Wire Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Excerpted from Lecture 3 of Robert Murphy’s “Basics of Economics: Action and Exchange”, which is available as an independent study course. Sign up for Dr. Murphy’s “Basics of Economics: An Introduction to the Free Market”, which starts in January 2014.

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