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526. Was Adam Smith Really a Right-Winger?

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Adam Smith's America - The Wealth of Nations

Glory Liu recently published a book called Adam Smith's America, how a Scottish philosopher became an icon of American capitalism. She writes in her book that the wealth of nations became the origin point of the science of political economy in the United States. The important thing in the founding era is that Smith is important as a very technical resource, but he hasn't quite obtained that halo around him yet.

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