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...attentive to the interests of commerce and manufactures”, and he added that “commerce and manufactures have accordingly been continually advancing during all this period”. “The cultivation and improvement of the country”, he said, “has, no doubt, been gradually advancing too; but it seems to have followed slowly, and at a distance, the more rapid progress of...

...attention to his theory of morality or to his calls for government intervention to keep markets working. By the last decades of the 20th century, Smith had been all but deified by supporters of a new free-market ideology. He would likely have been highly puzzled by this – and not a little dismayed. More on Adam Smith and Political Economy Take it further with the OU...

...attention, and international comparisons - he took City Hall in 2010, just two years after Obama had won the White House. But Peter was quick to downplay the comparisons, telling CNN: "I said that I'm flattered by the comparison, but I'm in no way Obama. I'm Peter Bossman, and I'm just running for mayor of a small town," he said. Had he faced any racism during his rise to...