Matthews, Peter Hans; Ortmann, Andreas - In: Review of Political Economy 14 (2002) 3, pp. 379-392
Murray Rothbard's posthumous Economic Thought Before Adam Smith is notable for its vilification of 'the quiet Scottish professor.' While there is little disagreement that Smith was, at best, an ambivalent champion of free markets, Rothbard's indictment of him as a proto-Marxist is less than...