… mercantilism — the use of economic regulation and intervention by the State to create special privileges for a favored group of merchants or businessmen.
Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D., Economic Controversies, p. 717
Jeremy Kauffman is the founder and CEO of the decentralized content sharing and publishing protocol LBRY. He is running for Senate in New Hampshire in the Libertarian Party.
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