On the Language of Economics on NPR's Marketplace (opens in new tab)

Last December, I spoke with Sean McHenry for a segment on NPR’s Marketplace about the meanings behind the words economists use. While only a short excerpt aired today, the full exchange dove into the philosophical, historical, and political layers that underlie economic language, especially through the lens of Adam Smith and the evolution of economic thought.We began with Smith, not the pop-icon version who supposedly preached markets above all else, but the Smith who drew from Newtonian mech...