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How (Not) to Read Adam Smith
  • Dmitry Pozhidaev
  • March 12, 2026

How (Not) to Read Adam Smith

Adam Smith is too important a thinker to be read through ready-made ideological templates. His work does not belong to any contemporary doctrine in a simple or direct sense, least of all to the kin

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The great poet and the great economist
  • Dmitry Pozhidaev
  • February 13, 2023July 29, 2023
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The great poet and the great economist

Alexander Pushkin, the great Russian poet was born in 1799, 23 years after the great British economist Adam Smith published his The Wealth of Nations and 9 years after the latter’s death. So, wha

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