Mises Daily
Author:
John Chamberlain
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[Excerpted from the prologue to The Roots of Capitalism ] In 1776 Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations , an economic treatise which had grown out of its Scots author’s preoccupation with the wider problems of free choice as a foundation of moral philosophy, was first published. That same year Thomas Jefferson, a man whose predilection for free choices