God is a Capitalist

by Roger McKinney

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  [1] Pieter De la Court may have been the first institutional economist with his book The True Interest and Political Maxims of the Republic of Holland published in 1662. A century later, Adam Smith introduced institutional economics to England with his Wealth of Nations.