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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Economists have been too hasty in celebrating their death.”

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Economists have been too hasty in celebrating their death.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin critiques the premature declarations of the decline of small trades by economists.

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