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The Wealth of Nations

In Our Time

CHAPTER

What's Happening in That Pin Workshop?

Smith used a well known example from the French encyclopedia. He wanted to make it a metaphor for something else. What's happening in that pin workshop is simply in a nutshell what is going to happen throughout this commercial society, he says.

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