<![CDATA[“Pierre Poilievre idolizes Adam Smith, but doesn’t understand one of his key insights into human nature, economist Lindsay Tedds says.”]]>“Pierre Poilievre idolizes Adam Smith, but doesn’t understand one of his key insights into human nature, economist Lindsay Tedds says.”

“Pierre Poilievre wants you to believe Adam Smith was a conservative. He wasn’t.”

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If you only consider the philosophy he expounded in “The Wealth of Nations” it’s easy to call him a conservative. However if you do the same with “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” you’d call him a liberal.

Read both and it would appear he was somewhere in the middle.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/Sanderde/statuses/116478205318070877https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/Sanderde/statuses/116478205318070877Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:59:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “Pierre Poilievre idolizes Adam Smith, but doesn’t understand one of his key insights into human nature, economist Lindsay Tedds says.” on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:39:20 GMT]]>@Sanderde To be fair a lot free market economists don't understand Adam Smith either.

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