As a symbol of free-market economics [ ] Adam Smith's Spinning Top, sculpture by at Smith has been celebrated by advocates of free-market policies as the founder of free-market economics, a view reflected in the naming of bodies such as the in London, multiple entities known as the "Adam Smith Society", including an historical Italian organization, and the U |
Similarly, Vivienne Brown stated in that in the 20th-century United States, supporters, , and other similar sources have spread among the general public a partial and misleading vision of Smith, portraying him as an "extreme dogmatic defender of laissez-faire capitalism and " |