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We tend to associate the Adam Smith-ian ideals of economic freedom, self-regulating markets and opposition to government meddling with capitalism's emergence in 18th and 19th Century Europe.
But is it possible for Classical Economics (or some like-minded school of thought) to have come about in a much different time and place than that--and what would've been the implications of such a game-changing PoD?