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Economics
Economics Ideas: David Hume on Self-Coordinating and Correcting Market Processes
by Richard Ebeling December 8, 2016Not too surprisingly, for over two hundred and fifty years these ideas of Hume’s have both been highly controversial in philosophy, yet immensely influential across many social and scientific disciplines.
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Economics
Economic Ideas: The French Physiocrats and the Case for Laissez-faire
by Richard Ebeling November 3, 2016In the middle decades of the eighteenth century two schools of thought emerged, one in France and the other in Great Britain that were critical of Mercantilism, the government system of economic planning and regulation in the 1700s.