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526. Was Adam Smith Really a Right-Winger?

Freakonomics Radio

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In Search of the Real Adam Smith, Part Two

In 1759, Adam Smith published his first book The Theory of Moral Sentiments. There's raging debate in Smith's scholarship among people who are sometimes called left Smithians and right Smithians. We'll find out when and where the modern view of Smith gained traction. And we'll hear how this interpretation of Smith is often quite wrong.

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