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 ...

When it comes to concepts from economics useful to startup founders, you can’t go wrong by going to the source by exploring Adam Smith - the founder of modern economics. Here are four principles from ...

The invisible hand is a concept that was coined by economist Adam Smith to illustrate hidden economic forces. The invisible hand is a metaphor that describes the unseen forces of self-interest ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anne Bradley writes about her experience teaching economics to college students. Our students need Smith now perhaps more than ever. Exploring the relationship between Adam Smith’s thought and ...

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 ...

But economist Donald J ... Finish story here; Donald Trump Praises Tariffs: A Look at Adam Smith’s Free Trade Exceptions & U.S. Economic Policy.