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The Moral Causes And Consequences Of Economic Growth — Benjamin M. Friedman

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Religious Controversies Around Smith and Hume

Hume and Smith were part of a movement away from predestinarian Calvinism. The view that people are able to cooperate with the divine in effecting their salvation, they say. This creates a whole different view of human agency, which is why modern economics came along when it did., he says.

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