162. Benjamin Friedman — Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Roll of Luck
In the 18 thirties and forties, America was a very different country from scotland or england. There really was a view that among the white males, anybody could make it. If you didn't like your if you didn't like what you were doing, you could always move 200 miles west to start off as an independent farmer. So i think er, that's, that is not the world adam smith knew. That there's a reason americans think in this way - ouk now, that's different from european society. We're entitled to ask whether we have inherited any good assumptions about how our lives should turn out," he says.
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