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Henry Clark on The Enlightenments

The Great Antidote

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How Original Was Adam Smith?

How original was adam smith? He has sometimes been accused of not citing his sources as assiduously as someone like montesquieu, for instance. I think that's partially unfair. There's a tremendous amount of of creative packaging of different ideas into a remarkably coherent whole. The entire modern school of what's calledo the economics of religion is about 30 or forty years old now.

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