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[ Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought , volume 2, chapter 3: “James Mill, Ricardo, and the Ricardian System.”] The theory of class conflict as a key to political history did not begin with Karl Marx. It began, as we shall see further below, with two leading French libertarians inspired by J.B. Say, Charles Comte (Say’s

[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995), volume 2, chapter 9: “Roots of Marxism: Messianic Communism,” section 2, “Secularized Millennial Communism: Mably and Morelly.” An MP3 audio file of chapter 9, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .] During the havoc and upheaval of

[This article is excerpted from Conceived in Liberty (1975), volume 1, chapter 31: “Economics Begins to Dissolve the Theocracy: The Failure of Wage and Price Controls.” An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Floy Lilley, is available for download .] From the first, the Massachusetts oligarchy, seeing that in the New World land was

[This article is excerpted from Conceived in Liberty (1975), volume 1, chapter 32: “Mercantilism, Merchants, and ‘Class Conflict.’”] The economic policy dominant in the Europe of the 17th and 18th centuries, and christened “mercantilism” by later writers, at bottom assumed that detailed intervention in economic affairs was a proper function of

[This article is excerpted from Conceived in Liberty (1975), volume 1, chapter 33, “Economics Begins to Dissolve the Theocracy: The Failure of Subsidized Production.” An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Floy Lilley, is available for download .]   To return to the New England scene, the flourishing but harassed Massachusetts merchants

[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995), volume 1, chapter 29, “Suppressing Heresy: Massachusetts Persecutes the Quakers.” An MP3 audio file of this chapter, narrated by Floy Lilley, is available for download .] After its persecution of the Hutchinsonians and the Gortonites, Massachusetts

[This article is excerpted from Conceived in Liberty , chapter 29, “Suppressing Heresy: Massachusetts Persecutes the Quakers.” An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Floy Lilley, is available for download .] The first Quakers to arrive in America came to Boston in July 1656. They were two Englishwomen, Ann Austin and Mary Fisher. Although

[Day 13 of Robert Wenzel’s 30-day reading list that will lead you to become a knowledgeable libertarian, this article is excerpted from The Logic of Action One: Method, Money, and the Austrian School (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1997), pp. 58–77. It appeared on LewRockwell.com Praxeology is the distinctive methodology of the Austrian School. The

[This article is excerpted from volume 2, chapter 10 of An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995). An MP3 audio file of this chapter, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .] Some might protest that, in our discussion of communism, we have not mentioned the feature that is generally considered the hallmark

[This article is excerpted from volume 2, chapter 10 of An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995). An MP3 audio file of this chapter, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .] The key to the intricate and massive system of thought created by Karl Marx (1818–83) is at bottom a simple one: Karl Marx was a