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Smith and Laissez Faire



I did a book in 1983, Classical Political Economy, Primitive Accumulation, and
the Social Division of Labor.  I have a couple of chapters on Smith and his
anti-laissez faire attitudes.  I read him as an insecure petty bourgeois fellow
who was resentful of everybody who did not agree with him: peasants, rebellious
workers, successful business people, aristocrats ...

I am just now completing a revision of the book.  My views of Smith have harden-
since then.
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Michael Perelman
California State Universtiy
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

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