By the way, I finished reading The Probability Broach, and I'd give it an A-. I think he tries too hard to be prosaic/humorous in every sentence, which makes him a little difficult to read--especially in the first 50 pages. He also has the annoying habit of starting every chapter with an annoying "quote" by people like "Mary Ross-Byrd." No wonder he "warned" me that he's already tussled with the likes of Murray Rothbard. I'll bet Rothbard didn't like having words put in his mouth and/or being made into a caricature of himself.
Incidentally, in Smith's world, Ayn Rand was President (at one time.) Then again, so was Robert LeFevre, who did indeed rock (and wouldn't have been caught dead being president.)
Oh, and there was something about a more advanced society abandoning the patent system. I guess after he got a few more books under his belt, he either had a change of heart, or, it's "different" with copyright (I was paying attention, and there was no reference to copyright in the body of the story.)
Yeah, I rambled. Sorry.