While Adam Smith has played an important historical role in the development of economic thought, as Murray Rothbard pointed ...
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Adam Smith has become the symbol of American capitalism, a champion of free trade and a free market. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, it sometimes seems as if capitalism and America share the ...
Excerpt and condensation of Chapter 4 from The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner, 7th ed., 1999. Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly ...
Readers will extend sympathy to me if I return to last Saturday’s column about Pierre Poilievre’s recent rhetorical outings. Adam Smith, after all, says that they will.
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The tercentenary of Adam Smith’s birth is an opportunity to consider how his insights into the dynamics of economic growth continue to shape our understanding of the world today. But what if the ...
Two and a half centuries after ‘The Wealth of Nations’, the father of economics deserves a fair assessment. Read his ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments’ too. His nuanced exploration of human motives and ...
On the anniversary of the publication of his major work, The Wealth of Nations, Michael Roberts considers the use and misuse of Adam Smith's political economy This week 250 years ago, Adam Smith ...
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Please mark this date on your calendar. Why? Because it's Adam Smith's birthday. Who's Adam Smith? He's the founder of free-market capitalism, baptized on June 16, 1723, 300 years ago. Glasgow, ...