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The Joe Walker Podcast

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Adam Smith's Narrative Economics

Adam Smith was not the first economist, but I like to think of him as the first social scientist. He understood that there are these complex forces at play that explain the world around us. And he thought very broadly, he was not a narrow follower of a discipline. So models and stories are inherently filters. They have to leave out a lot of stuff.

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