Further reading
Dig deeper into Brin's thoughts on Adam Smith:
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2013/11/liberals-you-must-reclaim-adam-smith.html
No wonder today's "libertarians" -- all-too caught up in the hallucinatory web spun by Rand and Rothbard and by Koch-financed "think tanks" like Heritage and Cato -- never refer anymore to the "First Liberal" and the founder of true libertarianism. Because Adam Smith would remind them that the real foe of enterprise has -- for 6000 years -- been owner-oligarchy and monopoly. The very forces that are rigging our elections and subsidizing propaganda that has driven a third of our neighbors crazy, re-igniting the American Civil War. So crazy, they proclaim that only government bureaucrats can harm capitalism, enterprise or freedom.