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Revisiting the "father of capitalism"
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Smith's Wealth of Nations
Smith is best known for the wealth of nations, his big opus on political economy. For Smith, political economy is part of the branch of the science of the legislator or statesmanship. He's trying to inform that world about a new way of thinking about political economy. And he starts off with these incredible illustrations of really ordinary objects and how they're produced.
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