Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (TWON), published on March 9, 1776, shares the year of its birth with the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Both documents ...

Adam Smith is one of the few thinkers who has had such a big impact on the modern world. Smith is often called the father of modern economics. He help.

Of all the great teachers of mankind, can any have lived a duller life than Adam Smith? Between his birth in 1723 and his death in 1790, he seems to have done nothing but read, lecture, travel once to ...

That’s the subject of the November Adam Smith 300 essay, written by Ryan Hanley of Boston College. It’s adapted from his 2019 book, Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life. Check it out: ...

Harvard social studies researcher Liu debuts with an intricate and provocative analysis of Scottish moral philosopher Adam Smith’s influence on U.S. politics and business. Though Smith has become ...

Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland in 1723. In 1751 he was appointed professor of logic at Glasgow University, delivering lectures in ethics, rhetoric, jurisprudence, and political ...

Here is the awkward Scottish bachelor at his best. Anyone can follow his reasoning. His logic is indisputable. Yet at the same time he is overturning an assumption which would otherwise strike many ...

Adam Smith is not who you think he is. Long hailed as the founder of modern economics and the father of capitalism, the 18th-century Scottish thinker was not only an economist and the author of The ...

How did a Scottish moral philosopher of the Enlightenment become an apostle of the libertarian right in this country? Political theorist Glory Liu traces the uses of the complex ideas Adam Smith in ...