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At the start of this chapter we referred to Adam Smith’s statement that self-interest is the foundation of a well-functioning society.
Make Yourself Unforgettable Dale Carnegie 2011
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At the start of this chapter we referred to Adam Smith’s statement that self-interest is the foundation of a well-functioning society.
Make Yourself Unforgettable Dale Carnegie 2011
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In its opening statement, the prosecution announced that the witnesses it would be calling would include a former Galleon trader called Adam Smith, Rajiv Goel, who was a senior manager at Intel, and a former consultant at McKinsey's, Anil Kumar.
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“Wealth of Nations,” Johnson called Adam Smith a liar, and Smith promptly handed back an epithet not in the Dictionary.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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In common with all countries that are as yet unable fully to carry out the idea of Adam Smith, of compressing a large quantity of food and wool into a piece of cloth, and thus fitting it for cheap transportation to distant markets, and which are, therefore, largely dependent on those distant markets for the sale of raw produce, the cultivation of the soil in Russia is not --
The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished 1836
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George Goodman, using the pen name Adam Smith, wrote a fun book about stock market exuberance and collapse during the 1960s called The Money Game.
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In contrast, while the philosophy of Marx and Engels is dying, the philosophy of Locke and Jefferson, and Adam Smith, that is, the philosophy of individual freedom and capitalism underlying the American Revolution - the philosophy which, ironically enough, was the original meaning of the word liberalism - has been reborn.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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The Money Game,by Adam Smith, aka George W. Goodman Vintage, 1976
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there is as yet no evidence from the analysis of real, unmassaged market data to support the notion of Adam Smith's stabilizing Invisible Hand.
Economic Literacy Via Philosophy?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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After all, the original founders of libertarian thought, such as Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham and J.S. Mill were all to some extent economists as well.
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