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[–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

Adam Smith was an economist, he lived earlier than Marx, another highly regarded economist, did. Adam Smith wasn't a founding father of the 🇺🇲.

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    Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" was a direct rebuttal to the British merchantilist policies of the 1770s. It was released the year the Revolutionary War began and heavily influenced both the independent movements propaganda and the subsequent fiscal policies of the new governments.

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