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In 1780, Smith described his criticism of mercantile political economy as a ‘very violent attack … upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain’ (Corr251). Four years later he stepped up his attack by adding to the third edition (1784), an equally robust broadside (WN442-62; Corr266).
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Kennedy, G. (2008). ‘a very violent attack’. In: Adam Smith. Great Thinkers in Economics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230227545_12
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