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Chicago: The Perfect Patron Saint of Capitalism
After the Great Depression, most economists in America were a very different kind of schools of thought. Chicago becomes an epicenter for people who are sympathetic to free markets but want to do so sensitively and politically. That's why Smith becomes such an important figure for them because he has the like authoritative cache as the father of economics.