Mises Daily
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Murray N. Rothbard
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[Excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought , vol. 2, Classical Economics (1995). An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .] One of the great puzzles in the history of economic thought, as we have indicated in Volume 1, is why Adam Smith was able to sweep the field and