Excerpt and condensation of Chapter 4 from The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers ... for more than 40 years. Adam Smith published his Inquiry into ...

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 ...

One of my long-ago professors–not an economist, and not a political conservative– sometimes said that Adam Smith was just ...

At the very beginning of the industrial revolution, Smith pointed out not only slavery’s vanities and vices, but its economic contradictions. That’s the subject of the November Adam Smith 300 ...