While Adam Smith has played an important historical role in the development of economic thought, as Murray Rothbard pointed ...

Not far from the grave, I found the Panmure House, a 17th-century townhouse which is the only surviving residence of Smith, ...

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1723-90) was published on 9 March 1776. It met with instant success.

James A. Moffett '29 Lectures in Ethics The Moffett Lecture Series aims to foster reflection about moral issues in public life, broadly construed, at either a theoretical or a practical level, and in ...

Founding Father John Witherspoon gracefully combined economic liberalism and theological orthodoxy. Throughout history, the ...

Host Russ Roberts has talked to the leading lights of modern economics but also to experts in theatre, baseball, Swiss ...

One year ago, the case for tariffs rested on four pillars: they would fund the government, decouple supply chains, rebalance trade, and give America negotiating leverage. I argued, using theory ...

Opinion - Systemic instability in political economy is primarily a product of cognitive failure rather than inherent moral turpitude. By distinguishing between "unenlightened" (short-horizon) and ...

Driven by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, strongly influenced by the theories of Milton Friedman, the West adopted an ...

Kansas Legislature sends to Gov. Laura Kelly a new state government budget falling short of recommendations she submitted to ...

The closure, which Trump said is to coincide with the nation’s celebrations of its 250th anniversary of independence, comes ...