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Yes, yes it is.

Or rather, every economist reads the first 20 pages of Smith's Wealth Of Nations, and basically skips everything afterwards.

Like... This gem: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."



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