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More than 245 years ago, an unassuming Scottish tutor to a young British duke published a sprawling manuscript about how, when, and why nations become materially prosperous. At first glance, An ...

Adam Smith has become the symbol of American capitalism, a champion of free trade and a free market. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, it sometimes seems as if capitalism and America share the ...

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Excerpt and condensation of Chapter 4 from The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner, 7th ed., 1999. Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly ...

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