The Examined Life

The leftist's Adam Smith

By Joshua Glenn

Globe Columnist / March 28, 2004

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ADAM SMITH IS often hailed as the original free-market guru. But according to Samuel Fleischacker, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and author of the new book "On Adam Smith's `Wealth of Nations"' (Princeton), the Scottish economist was also a deeply moral thinker who has some lessons to teach the left. "I came to ... (Full Article: 518 Words)