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A Theory of Moral Sentiment

In Adam smith's world, people still believed that being in commerce with other people made you like them more. "If i meet them, it's prodigus. Their trying to steal something from me," he said of his fellow traders. In the 17 hundreds, a lot of people believed they liked their trading partners because they got to know them better. 50 years later, by the time marks is looking at the same economic situation.

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