67. Adam Smith and Why the Enlightenment Loved Him

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Adam Smith’s systematic approach made reality tractable. This provided enlightenment thinkers with a framework with which to analyze government policy. And they loved it! He launched clear and specific attacks on common government policy, the mercantile system. Most of these abuses, based on medieval modes of thought were weakly followed in England, but were still very common in the rest of Europe. We spend...