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#AdamSmith, #WealthOfNations, and #CornLaws!
What more could you possibly want on a Saturday morning? (IV.v.b) #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets
Yes, it’s the Digression Concerning the Corn Trade and Corn Laws! We can barely contain ourselves long enough to remind you that “corn” doesn’t mean 🌽 It means the principal cereal crop of a nation. (We keep saying so because we keep forgetting.) #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets
#TLDR on #AdamSmith’s thoughts on the Corn Laws:

They’re bad. (IV.v.b.1) #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets
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Here we are in Book 4, chapter 2. It's clear that by restraining and prohibiting imports, you can give a monopoly to domestic manufacturers. But can you create wealth?

Well, we know how #AdamSmith feels about monopolies. (IV.ii.1) #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets
In fact, Smith's not even all that convinced that prohibitions keep foreign goods out. (IV.ii.1) #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets
Dear readers, we do not tweet the footnotes. (If that's your sort of thing, totally @ us.) But we have to draw your attention to the footnoted letter to William Eden where Smith claims that he burnt a bunch of his clothes for being illegal. (IV.ii.1) #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets
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