Today we learn about the heroic sixteenth-century figure Juan de Mariana, who taught that regicide could be justified and that inflation was theft, and who anticipated important concepts central to the Austrian School of economics.
About the Guest
Eric Graf is a professor of medieval and early modern Spain at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala.
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“Juan de Mariana and the Modern American Politics of Money: Salamanca, Cervantes, Jefferson, and the Austrian School,” by Eric Graf
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