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Revisiting the "father of capitalism"
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Smith: A Moral Critic of Capitalism
I was really drawn to Smith because I thought that he might be a resource for thinking about these kinds of problems in our own times. But I also got the sense that these readings of Smith as a kind of reworked progressive thinker who cared deeply about moral corruption and what commercial society does to our morals also seemed a bit too contemporary. So I decided to kind of go back to the drawing board and say, well, how did we get these different versions of Smith? And why do they do so much work for us?
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