At the very beginning of the industrial revolution, Smith pointed out not only slavery’s vanities and vices, but its economic contradictions. That’s the subject of the November Adam Smith 300 ...

Adam Smith published his Inquiry into the Nature ... he did not see a revolution -- the Industrial Revolution. Smith did not see in the ugly factory system, in the newly tried corporate form ...

Capitalism and economic globalization have no shortage of critics. As Cassidy shows, their criticisms have remained strikingly consistent over the centuries.

From early in World War II, the United States led a broad movement toward freer trade that has been the foundation of our unprecedented postwar prosperity. That may be changing. President Donald Trump ...

Individual ambition serves the common good,” wrote Adam Smith, masterful eighteenth-century analyst of the emerging ...

The 18th-century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith is credited with writing the ... only through the efficient operations of private industrial and commercial entrepreneurs acting with a minimum ...

Individual ambition serves the common good,” wrote Adam Smith, masterful eighteenth-century analyst of the emerging ...

Individual ambition serves the common good,” wrote Adam Smith, masterful eighteenth-century analyst of the emerging Industrial Revolution. Free trade that is also fair trade reinforces the modern ...