Adam Smith. Father of capitalism. Coined "the invisible hand." Wrote the oft referred to but rarely read, "Wealth of Nations." He was also a deeply odd guy who mumbled to himself in public ...

And from at least the time of Adam Smith's 1776 "Wealth of Nations" to 1998's Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Jared Diamond, "Guns, Germs, and Steel," people have speculated why some areas of the globe ...

Meanwhile, in another Victorian adjustment, the losers sink into the red. The wealth of nations is not the health of nations. Europe fear: China will do to us what it did to the United States A ...