Cannan and Klein: The Gospel of Mutual Service
In 1926, the 150th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations, British economist Edwin Cannan delivered a lecture titled ”Adam Smith as Economist” at the London School of Economics. The lecture was published in Economica in June of that year and in 1928 in Cannan’s An Economist’s Protest. (It was there that Cannan added the subtitle ”The Gospel of Mutual Service.”) What follows is excerpted from the lecture.