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The other side to the division of labour: the concentration of attention

How Adam Smith’s theory fosters specialist talent

5 December 2015

9:00 AM

5 December 2015

9:00 AM

Adam Smith’s theory on the division of labour first appeared in 1776 in The Wealth of Nations. The idea was later revived by The Coasters in their early 1960s B-side ‘My Baby Comes to Me’.

Well, she go to see the baker when she wants some cake
She go to see the butcher when she wants a steak
She go to see the doctor when she’s got a cold
She go to see the gypsy when she wants her fortune told
But when she wants good loving my baby comes to me
When she wants good loving my baby comes to me.




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