That’s the subject of the November Adam Smith 300 essay, written by Ryan Hanley of Boston College. What makes Smith’s philosophy of living any more worth our attention than many others that we ...

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

A rare book annotated by Scottish philosopher Adam Smith which was one of a minority not to be destroyed by him will go on display in his home town of Kirkcaldy, Fife. Smith, who became a leading ...

A specialist on the political philosophy of the Enlightenment period, he is the author of Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (Cambridge, 2009) and Love's Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in ...