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Book review: Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty: Forever king of the economics class
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Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty by James Buchan
Profile Books, 145pp, GBP 14.99
IF YOU WERE A REGULAR walker on the Salisbury Crags high above
Edinburgh on crisp mornings during the early 1780s, you would be
familiar with two earnest gentlemen whose passion was examining the
geology of that ancient rocky formation. One of them was Dr James
Hutton, whose excursions on the Crags would lead to a revolutionary
conclusion: that the Earth was millions of years old and had not,
after all, been created by God in the year 4004 BC, as was the
prevailing view.
For this was the Edinburgh ...
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