Learn about our editorial policies Adam ... Smith's most notable contribution to the field of economics was his 1776 book, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations". The ...

Smith's first-best answer was: Let 'em go. Here, Smith was direct and unequivocal. He wrote at length about the colonies as a fiscal sink for the British state, and he summed his case up in a ...

Adam Smith, its author, looked skeptically at the mercantile ... capture every single mention of Smith in the centuries since he wrote, but rather to look at the development of influential schools ...

Next year is the tercentenary of the birth of Adam Smith ... have heard of Smith, few will know much beyond the fact that he was born in Kirkcaldy, studied at Glasgow, and wrote about an apparent ...

Adam Smith loved books, and he used the library he assembled to research ... Also on display is a snuff box and pewter inkwell said to be used as Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations, as well as ...