Glory Liu

Why wasn't there a piece on the digression on silver?

Just kidding.

Just kidding.

It exceeded all of my expectations.

It was urgent and curious and dark and heroic and hopeful.

I really did not expect to feel such a range of emotions.

It's so easy.

to get a one-sided version of Smith, the one that most people are familiar with, and I bet the one that most people walking in these doors had the expectation they were going to hear.

The triumphant story of the invisible hand of the market over the heavy hand of government, that self-interest is the universal force of human coordination.

And yes, there are elements, right?

But the fact that Lange was able to make that so much more complex, it wasn't a simple message.

It challenged your preconceptions of...

who Smith is, what he stands for, what the concepts mean, and how these conversations evolve over time.

Like, I was so blown away by it.

What I really hope will happen is that people are going to have these really frank conversations about what they saw and what they encountered.

And an interpretation of Adam Smith that they didn't know was possible.

And I hope that that changes the conversation.

I think that that's how change happens.

You change the way people talk about an idea.

You change the way people talk about the history of an idea.