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Sixty-​one years ago, on October 10, 1957, Ayn Rand’s dystopian/​utopian novel Atlas Shrugged was published. Written to expound and defend a specifically individualist, freedom/​free-​market point of view, it is one of the most influential and literarily successful didactic novels ever written.

On October 10, 1973, Austrian-​born American economist, Ludwig von Mises (pictured above) died.

Two-​hundred fifty-​nine years earlier, the French law-​maker and Jansenist Pierre le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert died.

Both economists were known for their defenses of freer markets: le Pesant for pioneering the critique of mercantilism, arguing that a nation’s wealth consisted in what its people produce and trade; Mises for systematizing economic theory and advancing the critique of both socialism and latter-​day mercantilism (what he called “interventionism”).


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