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NeilMackay

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Journalist, author, filmmaker, broadcaster. Made in Ireland, found in Scotland. Writer at Large @heraldscotland MDANT🏅

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Inequality could cause violence on the streets, warns Scotland’s leading economist

I spoke to Prof Ronnie MacDonald about our ruined economy. He says inequality could lead to political unrest, and fears for the future of democracy as the far right rises heraldscotland.com/news/23994291.…

Inequality could cause violence on the streets, warns Scotland’s leading economist I spoke to Prof Ronnie MacDonald about our ruined economy. He says inequality could lead to political unrest, and fears for the future of democracy as the far right rises heraldscotland.com/news/23994291.…
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My long read on Adam Smith and how this pillar of the Enlightenment wasn’t the father of free market capitalism as we’re told but really quite lefty. His ideas were hijacked by Thatcherites to pave the way for privatisation. Time to set the record straight heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…

My long read on Adam Smith and how this pillar of the Enlightenment wasn’t the father of free market capitalism as we’re told but really quite lefty. His ideas were hijacked by Thatcherites to pave the way for privatisation. Time to set the record straight heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…
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How Thatcher and Reagan hijacked Scotland’s greatest thinker Adam Smith

Smith didn’t create rampant capitalism. He was a bit of a lefty

New research on his 300th anniversary shows how neoliberals in the 70s & 80s corrupted his thinking for political ends heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…

How Thatcher and Reagan hijacked Scotland’s greatest thinker Adam Smith Smith didn’t create rampant capitalism. He was a bit of a lefty New research on his 300th anniversary shows how neoliberals in the 70s & 80s corrupted his thinking for political ends heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…
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Why everything you think you know about Adam Smith is wrong

It’s Smith’s tricentenary: that pillar of the Enlightenment dubbed ‘father of free-market capitalism’. The big problem is, says the professor who held the Adam Smith economics chair, that’s lies heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…

Why everything you think you know about Adam Smith is wrong It’s Smith’s tricentenary: that pillar of the Enlightenment dubbed ‘father of free-market capitalism’. The big problem is, says the professor who held the Adam Smith economics chair, that’s lies heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…
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Think Adam Smith was the man who invented rampant capitalism? Wrong. This pillar of the enlightenment was really a lefty. On the 300th anniversary of his birth new research shows Smith’s legacy was hijacked by neoliberals to lay the ground for Thatcherism heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…

Think Adam Smith was the man who invented rampant capitalism? Wrong. This pillar of the enlightenment was really a lefty. On the 300th anniversary of his birth new research shows Smith’s legacy was hijacked by neoliberals to lay the ground for Thatcherism heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…
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Everything we’re told about Adam Smith, Scotland’s greatest economist, is lies

He wasn’t the father of free market capitalism. He was a lefty

So says the Adam Smith Professor of Economics. He warns the poverty Smith hated could lead to political violence heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…

Everything we’re told about Adam Smith, Scotland’s greatest economist, is lies He wasn’t the father of free market capitalism. He was a lefty So says the Adam Smith Professor of Economics. He warns the poverty Smith hated could lead to political violence heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…
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‘The norms of the market aren’t driven by our norms or the values of society. We live in a society where ethics and morality are unfortunately determined by markets and corporations.” heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…

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Why everything you think you know about 'father of capitalism' Adam Smith is wrong | NeilMackay

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Inequality could cause violence on the streets warns Scotland's top economist

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“Inequality is frightening,” Scotland’s most celebrated economist says. “It presents an existential threat on a par with pandemics and war. You could have a complete breakdown in society eventually if this isn’t addressed.” heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…

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Why everything you think you know about Adam Smith is wrong. Neoliberalism “built an entire edifice” on Smith that doesn’t accord with his writings. “That corruption has had stark consequences for the world we live in.”
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It’s the tricentenary of Adam Smith, that pillar of the Enlightenment dubbed the father of free-market capitalism. The only problem is, says the professor who held the Adam Smith chair in economics, that’s nonsense dlvr.it/T0FPY6 👇 Full story

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“Inequality is frightening,” Scotland’s most celebrated economist says. “It presents an existential threat on a par with pandemics and war. You could have a complete breakdown in society eventually if this isn’t addressed.” heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…

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‘The norms of the market aren’t driven by our norms or the values of society. We live in a society where ethics and morality are unfortunately determined by markets and corporations.” heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…

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A powerful and welcome piece from NeilMackay

'We live in a society where ethics and morality are unfortunately determined by markets and corporations.'

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My long read on Adam Smith and how this pillar of the Enlightenment wasn’t the father of free market capitalism as we’re told but really quite lefty. His ideas were hijacked by Thatcherites to pave the way for privatisation. Time to set the record straight heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…

My long read on Adam Smith and how this pillar of the Enlightenment wasn’t the father of free market capitalism as we’re told but really quite lefty. His ideas were hijacked by Thatcherites to pave the way for privatisation. Time to set the record straight heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…
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Inequality could cause violence on the streets, warns Scotland’s leading economist

I spoke to Prof Ronnie MacDonald about our ruined economy. He says inequality could lead to political unrest, and fears for the future of democracy as the far right rises heraldscotland.com/news/23994291.…

Inequality could cause violence on the streets, warns Scotland’s leading economist I spoke to Prof Ronnie MacDonald about our ruined economy. He says inequality could lead to political unrest, and fears for the future of democracy as the far right rises heraldscotland.com/news/23994291.…
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How Thatcher and Reagan hijacked Scotland’s greatest thinker Adam Smith

Smith didn’t create rampant capitalism. He was a bit of a lefty

New research on his 300th anniversary shows how neoliberals in the 70s & 80s corrupted his thinking for political ends heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…

How Thatcher and Reagan hijacked Scotland’s greatest thinker Adam Smith Smith didn’t create rampant capitalism. He was a bit of a lefty New research on his 300th anniversary shows how neoliberals in the 70s & 80s corrupted his thinking for political ends heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…
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Think Adam Smith was the man who invented rampant capitalism? Wrong. This pillar of the enlightenment was really a lefty. On the 300th anniversary of his birth new research shows Smith’s legacy was hijacked by neoliberals to lay the ground for Thatcherism heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…

Think Adam Smith was the man who invented rampant capitalism? Wrong. This pillar of the enlightenment was really a lefty. On the 300th anniversary of his birth new research shows Smith’s legacy was hijacked by neoliberals to lay the ground for Thatcherism heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…
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Why everything you think you know about Adam Smith is wrong

It’s Smith’s tricentenary: that pillar of the Enlightenment dubbed ‘father of free-market capitalism’. The big problem is, says the professor who held the Adam Smith economics chair, that’s lies heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…

Why everything you think you know about Adam Smith is wrong It’s Smith’s tricentenary: that pillar of the Enlightenment dubbed ‘father of free-market capitalism’. The big problem is, says the professor who held the Adam Smith economics chair, that’s lies heraldscotland.com/news/23994964.…
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