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
by Blake Smith
Blake Smith is a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the University of Chicago Society of Fellows and a collegiate assistant professor in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division 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.
Written by Blake Smith