... path-breaking work in the history of economic thought, his stress on the importance of the stuff of history as well as of the theories themselves, and his painstaking instruction in historical method.. .Economic Thought Before Adam Smith Murray N Rothbard To my mentors, Ludwig von Mises and Joseph Dorfman Economic Thought Before Adam Smith An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought. .. Steven Lee Yamshon Copyright © Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1995 This 2006 edition of Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I,