Dennis Rasmussen: Adam Smith was an extraordinary thinker and writer. He attracted students from around the world to come to Glasgow, he says. There are Smith scholars who wish he'd written much more than he did, Dennis Rasmussen writes.
How did an affable 18th-century “moral philosopher” become the patron saint of cutthroat capitalism? Does “the invisible hand” mean what everyone thinks it does? We travel to Smith’s hometown in Scotland to uncover the man behind the myth. (Part 1 of a series.)