Mises Daily
Author:
Jerzy Strzelecki
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The most beautiful justification of the free market that I know of is theological in nature. In his Disputationes de justitia et jure , published in 1642 in Lyon, the Spanish cardinal Juan de Lugo (1583–1660) wrote that the “just price” depends on so many factors that it can be known only to God. [1] (Saint Alfons Liguori, the founder of the