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In Praise of Dead Men: A Memoir

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

Robert W. Clower
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Among my happiest memories is a 1948 lecture on Adam Smith by a teacher who often read from and commented on primary texts. On the day in question, he arrived with a stack of books, from which he proceeded to read, one after another, for some 40 minutes. Finally he came to the last book in the stack, Smith's Wealth of Nations, from which he read the following:

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 1998 , pp. 499 - 503
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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