Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Tags: Interventionism, Production Theory, Value and Exchange, World History

05/21/2010 Murray N. Rothbard

France’s absolutism and strictly enforced mercantilism put it out of the running as a leading nation in industrial or economic growth, despite that its early industrial development had seemed promising and that its population was six times that of England, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).

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