Adam Smith’s America
Mar 01, 2023•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
In Adam Smith’s America (Princeton, 2022), Glory Liu explores how an 18th
century Scottish philosopher became an icon of American capitalism. She
shows how Smith became known as the father of political economy in the
nineteenth century, and how the Chicago School of Economics, in the
aftermath of the Great Depression, transformed Smith into the preeminent
theorist of free markets and self-interest. Liu also explores how a new
generation of political theorists and public intellectuals has sought to
recover Smith’s original intentions and restore his reputation as a moral
philosopher.
Glory M. Liu is a college fellow in social studies at Harvard University.
