Really good from The Guardian - they’re trying to rescue Adam Smith from the people using him as the Saint of Capitalism.
‘He wrote that civil government defends “the rich against the poor”, that too much property breeds great inequality and that the greed of the “masters of mankind” was such that they wanted everything with “nothing [left] for other people”’.
The Guardian
The Guardian view on Adam Smith: he deserves rescuing from the free-market mythEditorial: On the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations, the Scottish philospher is still invoked by the right. Yet he worried about inequality, monopoly and the power of wealth
