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While Adam Smith is celebrated in some circles as the “Father of Free-Market Economics” (Austrians would disagree), his writings on the “disadvantages” of the worker are misleading.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-adam-smith-helped-create-modern-unionism
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