Adam Smith was a philosopher and economic theorist born in Scotland in 1723. He's known primarily for his groundbreaking 1776 book on economics called "An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of ...

The Germans even named this "Das Adam Smith Problem." You won't find that term elsewhere in this issue, because we—like most of today's Smith scholars—do not think there is a problem to solve.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Washington Congressman Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee and one of the people publicly calling on President Biden to get out of the race.

And perhaps more to the point Adam Smith's invisible hand really isn't what critics of free market economics seem to think it is either. So, just for the record, here is what it actually is. There ...

Adam Smith Understood That We Need Each Other The thinker's views of human sympathy, beneficence, justice, and the division of labor still resonate. Vernon L. Smith | From the July 2023 issue.

When Adam Smith and a group of fellow Scots first used the word in a political sense, it meant something very different than it does today. By Daniel B. Klein February 13, 2014 ...