Mises Daily
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Murray N. Rothbard
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[ An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995)] Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) began as a devoted Smithian but more consistently attached to laissez-faire. During his relatively brief span of interest in economics, he became more and more statist. His intensified statism was merely one aspect of his major — and highly