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Jane Austen's novels corroborate Adam Smith's view that Anglican clergymen were idle.
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- Paul Seabright British economist at the Toulouse School of Economics
Adam Smith’s waspish observations in Book 5 of The Wealth of Nations about the idleness of Anglican clergymen are stunningly corroborated by Jane Austen.
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↗Jane Austen born 250 years ago today: a tragic Marxist feminist?paulseabright.com
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