Nancy Rothbard, a professor of management at Wharton, has researched the extent to which people integrate family into their work lives.

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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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Rothbard seems to be one of only a very few economists who truly understood the Great Depression: the reasons that it happened and the reasons that it was so deep and so long.

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