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Care to address the substance? HN rules say to respond to the strongest possible argument. You are failing to comply.
by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Care to address the substance? HN rules say to respond to the strongest possible argument. You are failing to comply.
- dredmorbius 7y agoSure: Smith was responding to, and opposing, concentrations of wealth and power and their negative, distortionary and discriminatory impacts on the economy. His harshest criticisms were against those concentrations and abuses of power. His strongest and most heartfelt arguments were for the common man. He wasn't some wealth gospel preacher, despite often being portrayed as such. And his attacks on the power and dangers of corporations were well taken. J.K. Galbraith's The Age of Uncertainty explores this in depth. As does much of the writing of Emma Rothschild. Among many others.