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Adam Smith's virtures revived.(BOOKS)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20020825
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Byline: William H. Peterson, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Another "Professor of Moral Philosophy" a la Adam Smith at Glasgow University in the 18th century? Hopefully. But no hint in the academic

title, "Capitalism and Commerce" by Edward R. Younkins, professor of accountancy and business administraton at Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia, a man who sees capitalism resting on a solid moral foundation of voluntarism and contractualism.

His book sings the logic and workings of back-to-basics libertarianism. It is a welcome moral play, an antidote to a ...

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