Free Market
Author:
Murray N. Rothbard
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The Free Market 4, no. 2 (February 1986) It is a common myth that the near-disappearance of the whale and of various species of fish was caused by “capitalist greed,” which, in a short-sighted grab for profits, despoiled the natural resources—the geese that laid the golden eggs—from which those profits used to flow. Hence, the call for