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Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral…

— Anonymous

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the…

— Anonymous

I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling…

— Anonymous

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood…

— Anonymous

Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the Physiocrats in…

— Francois Quesnay

It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived in, we're…

— P. J. O'Rourke

But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral…

— Paul Ormerod

Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is the underlying…

— David Graeber

Adam Smith's uncritically enthusiastic modern disciples portray his invisible hand theory as saying that market forces reliably harness selfish individuals to serve the common…

— Robert H. Frank

I am a believer in Adam Smith, who says that if you look at something that really contributes value to society, and you can…

— David Cheriton

Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?' Then, yeah,…

— Niall Ferguson