Given this zeitgeist, a book on the moral philosophy of Adam Smith is timely indeed. While Smith may be the founder of modern economics, he was first and foremost a professor of moral philosophy. Yet ...

That’s the subject of the November Adam Smith 300 essay, written by Ryan Hanley of Boston College. What makes Smith’s philosophy of living any more worth our attention than many others that we ...

Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019). “The Human Good and the Science of Man,” History of European Ideas (forthcoming). “Tocqueville and ...

Ideas That Changed the World explores contemporary life and Smith’s influences on the very things we see going on today. Why is Smith widely studied now in China? Ethical businesses, like Whole ...