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525. In Search of the Real Adam Smith
Freakonomics Radio
Adam Smith - The One No One Reads
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No economist's name is more frequently invoked than that of Adam Smith. The brilliant and sympathetic man has been turned into a cardboard cutout. Our mission today is to try to turn the cardboard cutout back into the real Adam Smith. He was born in 1723 in Kirkaldi, Scotland - just across the 4th from Edinburgh.
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