Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status (with Ross Levine)
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Episode: Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status (with Ross Levine)
Pub date: 2026-04-20
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What can Adam Smith teach us today? In this conversation between Ross Levine of Stanford's Hoover Institution and EconTalk's Russ Roberts, Smith emerges as a penetrating psychologist who understood that our deepest hunger isn't for wealth but for respect--and that this hunger, left unexamined, leads individuals and societies alike into serious…
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