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Welcome to the show.

Today we are talking about history.

We're talking about a historical figure I love, somebody who took on the Spanish

monarchy, somebody who repeatedly said the opposite of what the authorities wanted him to say,

and he got in trouble for doing it, but he did it anyway. And that is Juan de Mariana,

a Spanish Jesuit from the 16th century, who was a brilliant economic thinker, who also

scolded the Spanish monarchy for its immoral behavior. He believed that the Spanish monarchy

in debasing the currency was engaged in truly awful crimes against the Spanish people. So he's a tremendous person to learn about,

and he's been more influential down the centuries influencing other thinkers who came later

than we probably have realized up to now. Our guest today is Eric Graf, who is a professor at the Universidad Francisco Marocqueen in

Guatemala. He specializes in medieval and early modern Spain. He's the author of Servantes and

modernity, four essays on Don Quixote. And I became familiar with his work because of an article he wrote

for the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, which I will tell you more about once I bring him

onto the show. Of course, as usual, all this material will be linked for you on the show notes page

tomwoods.com slash 493. Eric, welcome to the show. It's great to be here, Thomas. I am so glad I was

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