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On Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"
On Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"
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38 minutes
Released:
Oct 19, 2022
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In 1776, Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an investigation into the nature of wealth. Smith is now considered the Father of Capitalism or the Father of Modern Economics. In fact, many people think of him as an economist and only an economist, but scholars tend to think of him as a moral philosopher. Smith lived in an era of great change, and the moral questions of the time were closely linked to developing politics and economies. Glory Liu is a College Fellow in Social Studies at Harvard University. She is currently working on an intellectual history of Adam Smith’s reception in American politics and political economy from the eighteenth century to the present. See more information on our website, WritLarge.fm. Follow us on Twitter @WritLargePod.
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Released:
Oct 19, 2022
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Podcast episode
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Joyce Appleby, “The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism” (Norton, 2010): Today everybody wants to be a capitalist, even Chinese communists. It would be easy to think, then, that capitalism is “natural,” that there is a little profit-seeker in each one of us just waiting to pop out. by New Books in Economic and Business History