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by UncleMeat 358 days ago
Smith actually wrote against this very concept. The idea that a corporation's only responsibility is to its shareholders is relatively recent.
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I dont think you are wrong but i think thats leaving out a key, for me THE key take aways i got out of it. ie Smith didn’t imagine capitalism working without regulation. His whole model assumes a strong legal and institutional framework to keep markets fair and socially useful.