This holiday season, the best deal in wireless can be found at Mint Mobile. Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com slash freak. The version of Adam Smith that was promoted by Milton Friedman would resonate well beyond academia. Coming up after the break, how one true believer brought Smith back to Britain just in time for a new revolution.
Economists and politicians have turned him into a mascot for free-market ideology. Some on the left say the right has badly misread him. Prepare for a very Smithy tug of war. (Part 2 of “In Search of the Real Adam Smith.”)