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An ancillary bit of linkage here; One of my favorite fantasy novelists, Steven Brust, has been rereading Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" for the last week or so, and blogging a running commentary on his readings. Mr. Brust is a pretty sharp and astute fellow, and an actual committed Communist and Labor guy (his family has deep roots going back over close to a century in the midwest Labor movements). So it's been fascinating watch him realize what Smith picked up on and what he missed writing well over two centuries ago, at the beginnings of our modern capitalist system. I think he's actually quite surprised by how modern Smith is, and the stuff Smith tends to miss are those things which weren't around in his time. If this interests you at all - i.e. a premier fantasy commie novelist deconstructing Adam Smith, then it's a really fun read: