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Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by xpe on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:41PM (#31673741)
A joke, I'll bet, but that is not what Adam Smith meant.
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Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by gumby on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @05:19PM (#31674363)
Most of the contemporary zealous acolytes of Adam Smith would be shocked and angered by what he actually wrote, were they to try reading it.
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Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by xpe on Friday June 10, 2022 @07:45AM (#31692712)
I am inclined to agree.

Many know of "The Wealth of Nations", but how many have read Smith's "Theory of Moral Sentiments"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith#The_Theory_of_Moral...

> Although The Wealth of Nations is widely regarded as Smith's most influential work, Smith himself is believed to have considered The Theory of Moral Sentiments to be a superior work.[79]

> Rae, John (1895). Life of Adam Smith. London & New York: Macmillan. ISBN 0-7222-2658-6. Retrieved 14 May 2018 – via Internet Archive.

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