Yeah, it bugs me when left-of-center people dismiss Smith (& neoclassicists who cite him) by making some joke about “the invisible hand.” Like, the point of the analogy was never “Things will always and everywhere turn out best when left to themselves.”
One of my hobby horses - Adam Smith should be better appreciated by the left, he's legit an interesting thinker with resources we can still profitably draw from: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/the-problem-with-inequality-according-to-adam-smith/486071/?utm_source=atlfb …
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Classical liberalism should not be ceded to right-libertarians.
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SHHHHH!
@nescio13 is going to be all over this with footnotes and nuances and "well actually" and so on.
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