<span> Adam Smith would be most likely to oppose: using taxes to help failing banks
Adam smith is regarded as the most outspoken economist that support free-market system.
In a free-market system, the government is not allowed to give help in any way to the private sector, including bailing out banks with taxpayer money</span>
Political science and comparitive politics changed after world war II, there was a better view to how politics was now seen instead of the descriptive and atheoretical knowledge that was held.