Is there more to #Adam_Smith than free markets? - John Kay
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Smith’s misanthropic scepticism extended widely — to business people (“an order of men . . . who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public”), to the rich (“the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches”), to empire (“a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers”), and to statistics (“I have no great faith in political arithmetic”).