The Fable of the Leeches: Or Why Economists Are Wrong to Assume Markets Require Contract Enforcement

Tags: Free Markets

07/24/2018 Edward Stringham

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 17, 2018.

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