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Adam Smith and the Financial Crisis

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith

I’ve now made available a three-part piece on Adam Smith. It starts by considering his credentials as an egalitarian thinker whose embrace of the ‘invisible hand’ of the free-market was less complete than his deregulating champions at the Adam Smith Institute would claim. This reappraisal is based on a recent book by Professor Iain McLean (Adam Smith – Radical and Egalitarian, Edinburgh University Press, 2006). I then go on to assess Adam Smith’s writing on money and banking in relation to crises in the 18th century and 21st century banking systems.

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