Adam Smith · Economics
The Adam Smith who distrusted businessmen, championed the poor, and assigned the state essential duties - far from the free-market absolutist of legend.
You learned that Smith is widely misread as a market fundamentalist. Explain his actual views on merchants and on the proper role of government, in your own words.
Leads to John Maynard Keynes.
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