Mises Daily
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Murray N. Rothbard
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[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995), volume 1, chapter 29, “Suppressing Heresy: Massachusetts Persecutes the Quakers.” An MP3 audio file of this chapter, narrated by Floy Lilley, is available for download .] After its persecution of the Hutchinsonians and the Gortonites, Massachusetts