Adam Smith Chair of Political Economy - Adam Smith Professors of Political Economy

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“Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

“The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.”
—Charles Macklin (1690–1797)

“We are concerned now, however, about natural, not political limits.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.”
—Anthony, Sir Eden (1897–1977)