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Author and MP Jesse Norman asks what lessons from Adam Smith’s thinking we should apply to a consideration of contemporary capitalism. Read by Robin Laing.

On the 300th anniversary of the birth of Adam Smith, author Jesse Norman explores his life and captures the febrile surroundings of Enlightenment Edinburgh. Considering Smith’s legacy, he dispels the myths and debunks the caricatures that have grown around the economist in the centuries since he first presented his ideas.

Norman concludes by asking how Smith’s remarkable legacy can be applied to our thinking about capitalism in the present day

Abridged by Rosemary Goring
Read by Robin Laing
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie

Jesse Norman is the Conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire and Minister of State in the Department for Transport. Previous publications include a celebrated study of Edmund Burke, and his debut novel The Winding Stair, a historical thriller set in the Elizabethan court, was published in the summer.

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Sat 16 Sep 2023 00:30
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