Harold J. Laski: “The individualism, that is to say, for which Adam Smith was zealous…”

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The individualism, that is to say, for which Adam Smith was zealous demands a different institutional expression from that which he gave it.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski discusses the need for a new institutional framework to support the individualism championed by Adam Smith.

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