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>he wrote famous defenses of companies like East India importing
Sounds wrong to me. There is some discussion of it here: http://adamsmithslostlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/01/claims-for-...
"Also chartered companies were well known as witnessed by Adam Smith’s negative assessment of chartered companies in general and the East India Company in particular, contained in the Wealth of Nations."
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>he wrote famous defenses of companies like East India importing
Sounds wrong to me. There is some discussion of it here: http://adamsmithslostlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/01/claims-for-...
"Also chartered companies were well known as witnessed by Adam Smith’s negative assessment of chartered companies in general and the East India Company in particular, contained in the Wealth of Nations."