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AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WE...

In addressing the nature and causes of the wealth of nations  Adam Smith made one of the most
potent contributions to subsequent ideological history. In the west since the early nineteenth
century he has been the patron saint of homo economicus. More recently  successive British
governments have invoked his policy recommendations of free trade and laissez-faire to aid
their extension of privatization and market effectiveness into areas such as health and
education. Smith  however  not only viewed merchants and manufacturers with deep suspicion  but
also tempered his celebration of a self-regulating market with a darker vision of the
dehumanizing potential of a profit-oriented society. He did not write an economics textbook 
but rather a panoramic narrative about the struggle for individual liberty and general
prosperity in history  a subject he shared with other writers of the Enlightenment.

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