Mises Daily
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Murray N. Rothbard
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[This article is excerpted from Economic Thought Before Adam Smith .] Juan de Mariana (1536–1624) One of the last Spanish scholastics was a Jesuit but not a Salamancan. He was the “extremist” contemporary of Molina and Suarez, Juan de Mariana (1536–1624). Mariana was born near Toledo, of poor and humble parents. He entered the great University