Adam Smith - In Our Time

[ardcarp]

Melvyn and guests were discussing The Wealth of Nations today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052ln55#auto

Not sure it was the most enlightening edition of IOT, but worth a listen. Last year one of my g-kids went with her sixth form to a series of lectures at The Adam Smith Institute. I was slightly alarmed that one of the speakers was Madson Pirie whom I always thought of as being slightly to the right of Attila the Hun. Maybe I'm wrong, but I always associate him with Thatcher's particularly virulent brand of privatisation.

[Frances_iom]

Melvyn and guests were discussing The Wealth of Nations today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052ln55#auto

Not sure it was the most enlightening edition of IOT, but worth a listen.

it was ok esp as Bragg seemed rather subdued - however it's not only the left wing who deliberately misname organisations to give a false impression.

[Richard Tarleton]

it was ok esp as Bragg seemed rather subdued

Still smarting from the cruel Craig Brown spoof in the last Eye, perhaps.

[Serial_Apologist]

it was ok esp as Bragg seemed rather subdued - however it's not only the left wing who deliberately misname organisations to give a false impression.

Indeed - we still find Conservatives referring to Labour governments as being "socialist".

I did listen to this; I frequently feel that participants in this programme should be given strong black coffee prior to the programme, in order to get brain cells working, and this was very much the case here. That said, I'm afraid my knowledge of Adam Smith is very much second-hand, by way of Marx's critique. Does anyone know: did Smith also omit slavery from his analysis?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Still smarting from the cruel Craig Brown spoof in the last Eye, perhaps.