Z:gnu-www-ja-self-interest--5fb620-The quick answer is, =26ldquo;No/en

The quick answer is, &ldquo;No.&rdquo; And few of the better-known theoreticians of the free-market have ever thought that self-interest was, or even could be, sufficient to organize, or long maintain, a free economy. Among those theoreticians, Adam Smith is often regarded as having been the primary philosopher of self-interest. In a book written to correct a number of misunderstandings of Smith's teachings, we find the following summaries of Smith's view about self-interest: