Chief among those influenced was the late Murray Rothbard, a co-founder of the Cato Institute and later of the Mises Institute.

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And despite what Murray Rothbard said, a purely commercial society would be too weak to defend itself from internal and external predators.

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His socialist critics accepted this, and Oskar Lange suggested that a statue of Mises be given a place of honor by the socialist Central Planning Board (here is Murray Rothbard with more).

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