Wasn't Adam Smith a "moral" scientist? (or "scientist"?)

Michael Perelman wrote:
> By the third volume of his Keynes trilogy, Skidelsky was moving into
> the Hayek camp.
>
> Also, conservatives often stress that economics is a moral science --
> in the same sense as welfare reform was moral.  Tough love improves
> people... moral fiber and all that.

-- 
Jim Devine / "All science would be superfluous if the form of
appearance of things directly coincided with their essence." -- KM
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