This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
<![CDATA[Physiocracy and Free Trade in 18th-Century France]]>
The first self-conscious school of economic thought developed in France shortly after the publication of Cantillon's Essai. They called themselves "the economists" but later came to be called the "physiocrats," after their prime politico-economical principle: physiocracy (the rule of nature), writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).
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