How do the visions of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the proper relationship between individual self-interest and social good differ?

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The Answer is Answer would ideally include the following. Smith believed that individuals acting in their own interest in a free marketplace would produce maximum benefit for themselves and, by extension, the most prosperity for society as a whole. While Smith believed in economic cooperation and the value of a shared marketplace, he saw governments as best serving the public interest when they left individuals and marketplaces alone and refrained from interfering, except to protect and preserve economic freedom. Rousseau attacked private property and suggested that individual self-interest was less useful than a social contract among citizens, freely arrived at, that would lead to a government that operated in relation to the "general will," the best means of effectively promoting equality and freedom for all.

How Do the Visions of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau