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Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatiseThe Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his first book,The Theory of Moral Sentiments, he investigated the flip side of economic self-interest: the interest of the greater good. Smith’s classic work advances ideas about conscience, moral judgment, and virtue that have taken on renewed importance in business and politics.

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