This week on Freakonomics we look at the 300th birthday of Adam Smith. The Scottish economist is known as the father of economics but he's also misunderstood. He didn't really mean free from the state when he talked about the free market, he meant free from rentFree from landlords extraction of value from the system. We visit a cemetery where people very hear about come alive for one night only. And they'll be pretty spooky.

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