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+ I think the author would put socialism square in his view of 'Eurocentric Modernism' as well.

+ Trump is the farthest thing from a neoliberal. He's a nationalist/protectionist, anti free trade.

I reject a lot of the author's claims about Adam Smith and 'narrow self interest'. Generally, people are concerned about their own well-being more than others, that's just a fact, it doesn't make us greedy. Knowing this, we can model human behaviour and markets etc. with some degree of rationality.

Adam Smith believed the #1 attribute of a CEO was 'benevolence' for gosh sakes :).

So much hardcore capitalist stuff is attributed to Smith, when really he was not. He was explaining how things work, not an ideologue.



The Smith Rule: If you bring WoN into your argument, you probably never read it.

Gatto, Chomsky, and perhaps Taleb are the only three talkers I've come across who talk about Smith as though they actually read him.




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