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- Adam Smith was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed… — Robert Heilbroner
- The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That… — Immanuel Wallerstein
- Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory… — Arianna Huffington
- Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals… — George Stigler
- We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute,… — Chris Hedges
- ... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome… — Noam Chomsky
- On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S.… — Michael Lind
- We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous. — Noam Chomsky
- Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the… — Francois Quesnay
- As against the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have… — Pierre Trudeau
- Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual… — Nelson Mandela
- When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence. — P.J. O'Rourke