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527. Can Adam Smith Fix Our Economy?

Freakonomics Radio

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Adam Smith's America

If Adam Smith were alive today, he would have urged economists to consider the quality of economic growth. He valued the free market but believed it was the responsibility of a civilized society to ensure that wealth should not be achieved at the expense of humanity. For every sentence where it seems like Smith says this is bad, there's another sentence where you could go, well, maybe not.

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