If you read those passages in The Wealth of Nations on the tendency to truck, barter, and exchange, on relying on the interests rather than the benevolence of the butcher, brewer, or baker, on the origins of money, if you read those passages carefully, what you see is...
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not a manifesto for the unleashing of untrammeled self-interest but just the opposite: how much the market actor is forced, by virtue of being in a market, to think about and consider and take in and reflect upon and about the needs and concerns of others, in his daily practice.
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Parallels Smith's argument in Moral Sentiment about how benevolence is embedded in circumstances and horizon.
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