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 ...

but its economic contradictions. 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 ...

The book has enlivened the study of economics for beginning students for more than 40 years. Adam Smith published his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776 ...

They are a bad idea.” Dr Madsen Pirie, president of the Adam Smith Institute, neatly summed up the views of the Kirkcaldy-born ‘Father of Economics’ on tariffs in an article following Donald ...

The essential feature of capitalism is the motive to make a profit. As Adam Smith, the 18th century philosopher and father of modern economics, said: “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, ...