Smith's Cultural Agenda
Dan Klein discusses Adam Smith's perspective on embracing the voluntary principle and the alternatives to restricting it. Smith's cultural agenda involves accepting the imperfections and fragmentations that come with commercial society, while also emphasizing the importance of cohering around principles like classical liberalism.In this clip
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