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“My property rights are there! Work is therefore the certain foundation, the pure source, the holy origin of the rights of property. Otherwise the self is not primordial and original property, and the faculties, an expansion of the self and the organs put to its service, do not belong to it, which would be intolerable.”

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Gustave de Molinari
Gustave de Molinari

Gustave de Molinari was a prominent economist, born on March 3, 1819, and died on January 28, 1912. He is considered one of the pioneers of laissez-faire economics and free-market theory, having a profound impact on the fields of economics and political philosophy. more

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