In his posthumously published two-volume work, An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995), Murray Rothbard charged Adam Smith with carelessly steering economics away from the sound doctrines of his “proto-Austrian” predecessors. However, a fair reading of Smith reveals that it was Rothbard who was guilty of sloppy scholarship and fuzzy thinking.
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James C. W. Ahiakpor is a Professor of Economics at California State University, East Bay.
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| Summer 2008 | Mystifying the Concept of Capital: Hernando de Soto’s Misdiagnosis of the Hindrance to Economic Development in the Third World | |
| Spring 2008 | Letters to the Editor | |
| Fall 2007 | On Classical Economics | |
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