Mises Wire
Author:
B.K. Marcus
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Why did Rothbard so love Turgot? This passage, which Turgot wrote as a summary of the thought of Vincent de Gournay (who coined the phrase “laissez faire, laissez passer”), makes it abundantly clear: The general freedom of buying and selling is therefore the only means of assuring, on the one hand, the seller of a price sufficient to encourage