Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson: The Wealth of Nations, An Essay on the History of Civil Society, and the Militia Question

Podcast: Consequential Actions Podcast · Jeff Kellick

Opublikowano: 2026-09-13

Self-Evident: The Road to 1776 — Episode 13 Adam Smith Made the Case for the Free Market. Then, in the Same Book, He Wrote the Strongest Objection to It. Two men were born in Scotland in 1723, a county apart. They joined the same Edinburgh club, kept the same friends, and worked from the same premise about what commercial life does to a people. They never agreed about the remedy. Every account of Adam Ferguson says that at Fontenoy in May 1745 the young chaplain of a Highland regiment wa...