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526. Was Adam Smith Really a Right-Winger?

Freakonomics Radio

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Das Adam Smith Problem

German scholars are weird. Smith has really just whittled down to the ideology of free trade, Lou says. Sympathy in The Theory of Moral Sentiments doesn't entail or require any kind of altruism and other directedness,. It's perfectly compatible with people being self-interested.

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