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“But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments as for The Wealth of Nations. And as he understood so well, society is more than the sum of its individual parts.”

Quote by Paul Ormerod

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Paul Ormerod is a British economist born in 1969. He has conducted extensive research in the field of economics, particularly in the areas of economic behavior and complex systems theory. Ormerod's work often explores the irrationality of economic decisions and the instability of markets. more

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