… is from page 180 of the original edition of Walter Lippmann’s sometimes flawed but deeply insightful and still-important 1937 book, The Good Society:
The authentic progressive thought of the modern world is an evolution from his [Adam Smith’s] discovery that the wealth of nations proceeds from the division of labor in widening, and, therefore, freer, markets.


The authentic progressive thought of the modern world is an evolution from his [Adam Smith’s] discovery that the wealth of nations proceeds from the division of labor in widening, and, therefore, freer, markets.
