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Juan de Mariana, S. J.
Jul. 14th, 2003 10:48 amThe father of Austrian economics?
So says this interesting essay by Jesus Huerta de Soto, posted today at the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
In many, many ways the Austrian school continues the work of the Iberian Neoscholastics: ( Read more... )
These same early modern thinkers are also said to have had considerable influence on the founders of the American republic through the understanding of the law of nature and of nations which they articulated for all time -- or at least until very, very recently. I would like to see more documentation of this claim, but it might go some way toward accounting for the fact that economists of the school of Menger are among the ablest defenders of the Constitutional system of politics.
So says this interesting essay by Jesus Huerta de Soto, posted today at the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
In many, many ways the Austrian school continues the work of the Iberian Neoscholastics: ( Read more... )
These same early modern thinkers are also said to have had considerable influence on the founders of the American republic through the understanding of the law of nature and of nations which they articulated for all time -- or at least until very, very recently. I would like to see more documentation of this claim, but it might go some way toward accounting for the fact that economists of the school of Menger are among the ablest defenders of the Constitutional system of politics.