"The Lockean recoinage was assisted by Locke's old friend, the great physicist Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) who, while still a professor of mathematics at Cambridge from 1669 on, also became warden of the Mint in 1696, and rose to master of the Mint three years later, continuing in that post until his death in 1727. Newton agreed with Locke's hard-money views of recoinage." https://mises.org/library/book/austrian-perspective-history-economic-thought #newton #isaacnewton #locke #johnlocke #rothbard #aphet #economics #money #soundmoney #mathematics
Mises InstituteAn Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought | Mises InstituteThis is one of Rothbard’s most important scholarly works. In the first volume (Economic Thought Before Adam Smith), Rothbard traces the history of economics