Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism

Au prétexte que cet économiste avait commencé à écrire, à Toulouse, en 1765, ses fameuses Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations, elle avait fait de ce père du libéralisme une sorte de gourou derrière lequel elle s’abritait pour justifier tous les excès du capitalisme moderne. Ainsi vantait-elle les positions optimistes d

In his 1776 classic, The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith explained: It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

At the Freedom School, Charles became particularly enamored of the work of two laissez-faire economists, the Austrian theorist Ludwig von Mises and his star pupil, Friedrich Hayek, an Austrian exile, who visited the Freedom School. Hayek’s book The Road to Serfdom had become an improbable best seller in 1944, after Reader’s Digest published a conde