Mises Daily
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Murray N. Rothbard
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[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought , vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith . An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .] During the early 1670s, the devout Abbé Claude Fleury (1640–1723), a young theologian, moralist, and man of letters,