526. Was Adam Smith Really a Right-Winger?

Update: 2022-12-15

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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.”)

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