Adam Smith: Left, Right, Other, or All of the Above?
On the political outlook and ideology of the great Scottish philosopher.
Daniel Klein is professor of economics and JIN Chair at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he leads a program in Adam Smith, and associate fellow at the Ratio Institute, Stockholm.
On the political outlook and ideology of the great Scottish philosopher.
* The new volume Freedom in Sweden: Selected Works of Erik Gustaf Geijer, ed. Björn Hasselgren, trans. P. C. Hogg (Timbro, 2017) rediscovers Geijer—pronounced yay-yer. Page-number citations in the following are to that volume. The name Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847) is little known outside of Sweden. But a book