Father of capitalism Adam Smith 'would back New Labour' - Brown

From: The Scotsman | Date: April 18, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

GORDON Brown is to claim that the father of modern economics and free market capitalism, Adam Smith, was spiritually an early member of New Labour, in a book published later this year.

The Chancellor had challenged Iain McLean, a professor of politics at Oxford University, to write a book on where one of the world's most famous Scots would feel "more at home" if he was alive today: on the centre-left or centre-right of politics.

And, in a foreword to Adam Smith, Radical and Egalitarian, published by Edinburgh University Press, Mr Brown makes it clear he believes the economist had a strong ...

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