The 18th-century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith is credited with writing ... and published them in his first major work, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). In 1763 he resigned from the university ...

The concept of the invisible hand is often credited to economist Adam Smith, as the term appeared in his 1759 work, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments," and again in "The Wealth of Nations" in 1776.

You could find that shocking; better, however, would be to use it as a reminder that human nature doesn't change and that Adam Smith was ... Wealth of Nations and Moral Sentiments, now is as ...

Portfolio/Penguin, New York, 2014, 272 pp., $27.95 (cloth). Ethics in economics seems to be back in vogue today. This is undoubtedly because of the global financial crisis, which exposed a startling ...