To put it bluntly, this is Adam Smith as a political realist. This is a Smith whose contributions to the study of modern politics cannot be reduced to appeals to his moral philosophy, a Smith who ...

Adam Smith is often considered to be the father ... 25 GL: At the most superficial level, showing that Smith’s moral philosophy and political economy might be aligned with the contemporary ...

a pathbreaking thinker in his own time and a philosopher whose insights in The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations still apply in ours. But he is not the only Adam Smith. For this ...

Exploring the relationship between Adam Smith’s thought and Catholic social teaching. Smith championed free markets for their promotion of wealth and dignity. But it was in moral philosophy that ...

Learn about our editorial policies Adam Smith was an 18th-century Scottish ... position of Chair of Logic in 1751 and then Chair of Moral Philosophy in 1752. During his years spent teaching ...

David is joined this week by Dr. Glory Liu, author of the new book, Adam Smith ... different treatments of Smith still require answers to this day. How do moral philosophy and economic laws ...

Nobody changed the dismal science of economics quite like Adam Smith, the Scottish philosopher ... mathematical calculations and formulas. ‘Moral philosophy’ was, after all, also more ...

Why would Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, be appalled -- like any sane observer -- by the arrest and ...

The 300th anniversary of Adam Smith’s birth last month coincided ... As a professor of moral philosophy in Glasgow, where he taught the children of the landed elite, he acted as an advisor ...

What to make of Adam Smith? You might have thought we would ... He left his mother at the age of 14 to study moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow, before completing his postgraduate ...