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Book review: Adam Smith And The Pursuit Of Perfect Liberty: Invisible hand just out of reach
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Adam Smith And The Pursuit Of Perfect Liberty
James Buchan
Profile, GBP 14.99
ADAM Smith is a philosopher more written about than read these
days. In the past few years, a veritable industry has grown up,
revealing what the works of this great Scottish thinker actually say.
Of course, this is something of which the man himself could only
approve. As a firm believer in the individual's right to pursue his
own interest he could hardly do other than applaud the emergence of a
thriving trade in ideas about his ideas.
Smith would be flattered that, more than 200 years after his
death, people ...
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