Adam Smith / 亚当·斯密

Adam Smith / 亚当·斯密 appears in 61.自从拥有经济学的思维方式，人生都变简单了！ through the episode’s discussion of the invisible hand and the social order behind seemingly separate individual choices. The source uses morning traffic as an accessible route into Smith’s question: how can a complex society coordinate many people who have different destinations, plans, and needs?

The episode also uses Smith to soften a caricature of economics as cold money-worship. The host notes that Smith was not only associated with market order but also with moral questions, helping the source frame economics as rational analysis with social concern rather than as a replacement for moral judgment.

Connections

• Market Coordination - the invisible-hand style order the episode explains through traffic and markets.
• Economic Way Of Thinking - Smith’s role in the source’s general economics frame.
• [[TheEconomicWayOfThinking|《经济学的思维方式》 / The Economic Way of Thinking]] - book that introduces the Smithian problem early.
• Rational Humility - adjacent reasoning stance: economics analyzes tradeoffs without pretending away moral or institutional complexity.