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Study Adam Smith to solve crisis, Chirac told

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From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20051127
Author:WILLIAM LYONS, Arts Correspondent

JACQUES Chirac should study Adam Smith to solve the growing cultural crisis in France, American historian Arthur Herman will argue in a lecture next month.

The French President has admitted the recent spate of rioting in his country has highlighted a crisis of identity.

Herman, the author of How the Scots Invented the Modern World, will argue that the legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment has the ideas and principles to revitalise France.

In the Sir William Gillies Lecture at the Royal Scottish Academy, Herman will say that both France and Scotland shared in the Enlightenment. But where in ...

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