Did Adam Smith Retard the Development of Economic Analysis?: A Critique of Murray Rothbard's Interpretation.

From: Independent Review | Date: December 22, 1999| Author: AHIAKPOR, JAMES C. W. | Copyright information

Murray N. Rothbard in his two-volume work, "An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995)," claims that Adam Smith was a plagiarist who stole ideas from Latin scholars and merely translated them into English. He argues that Smith failed to advance theories of value, money, income distribution, and scarcity.

In the first volume of a two-volume work, An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995), Murray N. Rothbard attempts to make the case th...

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