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In the midst of one of the most famous passages in The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith writes ‘nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog’ (WN I.ii.2).1
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Weinstein, J.R. (2014). What My Dog Can Do: On the Effect of The Wealth of Nations I.ii.2. In: Hardwick, D.F., Marsh, L. (eds) Propriety and Prosperity. Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137321053_9
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