Adam Smith defined how we think about free markets. His guiding principle was, famously, the invisible hand – a mystical ...

Stiglitz, renowned economist said, unlike Adam's Smith view, "The pursuit of self-interest in the age of AI does not mean the ...

Adam Smith taught us that trade is not a zero-sum game 250 years ago. Trump may not have read his Wealth of Nations, but the ...

Robbins’s definition of economics aligns more closely with Adam Smith’s foundational insights detailed in “The Wealth of Nations.” Smith showed that people flourish when allowed to pursue their own ...

Scrapping the non-doms tax status could cost the UK up to £111bn by 2035, the Adam Smith Institute (ASI) is warning. The UK ...

Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs said tariffs "are a terrible idea" as an economic policy, but he also defended President Trump ...

Adam Smith published a book entitled "The Wealth of Nations", and he became viewed as, and is still regarded by some as the father of modern economics, and ...

Richard Rahn: The president’s plan could work, but the likelihood is it won’t work the way he hopes. Ever since Adam Smith ...

Thank goodness for economists like Smith who are willing to stand up for freedom, back it up with quality scholarship, and call out people like Stiglitz.

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March 1), cites Adam Smith, the Scottish economist and philosopher, to the effect that people are naturally more concerned with their own suffering than with other people’s. Since I suspect that ...