“But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments as for The Wealth of Nations. And as he understood so well, society is more than the sum of its individual parts.”

Source: The Death of Economics (1994), Chapter 10, Economics Revisited, p. 212

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