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Eric Schliesser on Adam Smith’s Warnings About Inequality

Episode #35: Eric Schliesser on Adam Smith’s Warnings About Inequality

August 11, 2025
GuestsEric Schliesser

Adam Smith is often remembered for championing free markets, but his moral philosophy on inequality and power is less known. Eric Schliesser joins Steven Durlauf to discuss this side of Smith and the decline of the economist as moral philosopher.

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