http://archive.mises.org/1917/adam-smiths-marketplace-of-life/ Proceeding Ever More Boldly Against Evil Tue, 21 May 2013 04:23:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://archive.mises.org/1917/adam-smiths-marketplace-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1996 Stephen W. Carson Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:38:26 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/archives/001917.asp#comment-1996 “…there has been a feeling about that Smith was a first rate economist, but a second rate philosopher.” As readers of Austrian revisionist work on Smith know, he was a second rate economist. (e.g. See Rothbard’s History of Economic Thought) Perhaps he was a first rate philosopher (I was much more impressed with Theory of Moral Sentiments, a careful scholarly work, than Wealth of Nations, a sloppy hodgepodge of unoriginal or just wrong economics). It would be just about right for the popular conception of Smith to be just reverse of the truth.

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