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Revisiting the "father of capitalism"
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Is Adam Smith a Moral Philosopher?
The fact that we think of Smith as an economist first, or even primarily, and not as a moral philosopher is already a sign that we haven't taken him seriously. Adam Smith saw the project in The Wealth of Nations to systematically study through observation and then taking these specific examples and generalizing outward. Very much in the same vein that he did his moral philosophy to start with human experience.
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