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Everyone Loves Free Markets. But This Meant One Thing To Romans And Something Completely Different to Milton Friedman

History Unplugged Podcast

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Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith was a professor of moral philosophy. That means a professor of Ciceronian thought. He and his mentor Hume were Ciceronians as most people were at the time. Put that together with Newton's new, unbelievably revolutionary idea of the universe. And guess what? They kind of work together. So you can have this idea that things work on their own or things work due to a prime mover. Once the prime mover makes them work, they can work in the system.

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