“We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous. He's a dangerous radical.”

—  Noam Chomsky

Talk at Brown University (April 2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBfHD2n13OA
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american linguist, philosopher and activist 1928

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