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Blake Smith

Collegiate Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago

Blake Smith is a collegiate assistant professor at the University of Chicago. His research, focusing on the French East India Company, has appeared in scholarly journals such as French Cultural Studies and the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, as well as popular media such as The Wire and The Appendix.

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Fairness and equality

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Adam Smith warned us about sympathising with the elites

Sympathy is both key to human psychology and source of much of our misery. For Adam Smith, the philosophical life is the cure

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