I developed interest in Adam Smith after reading the books by Paul Bloom, and he recommended this book. I picked it up to learn more about smith, and it was absolutely amazing. I highly recommend checking it out

2nd read:
During this difficult time I’ve been going through, I’ve been thinking about this book a lot because it really helped me the first time I read it. Russ Roberts breaks down Adam Smith’s less famous first book about living a good life. I started re-reading it yesterday and finished it within about a day. This book describes Adam Smith’s philosophy of living a good life in a way that anyone can understand, and I appreciate Russ Roberts taking the time to write it. The book helps put into perspective what we value and how we should treat other people. It was also really interesting how Roberts showed how Smith’s famous “invisible hand” is also a guide for how we can live a moral life. It bums me out to know that Smith is most famous for his economics and it’s often poorly referenced as an argument for this world of winner-take-all capitalism because when you understand Smith’s views on morality, you see how he’d probably have some criticisms of modern-day American capitalism and how we treat one another.