The 300th anniversary of Adam Smith’s birth last month coincided ... who later got him a job as a customs tax collector. Smith’s philosophy showed how commercial culture could work within ...

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 ...

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 ...

Glory Liu’s “Adam ... as Smith defines it is far too weak a foundation on which to build an elaborate theory of morality.” That criticism—that Smith’s ethical philosophy lacks a ...

Adam Smith was born in 1723. This year he turns 300. To celebrate, National Review Capital Matters offers the Adam Smith 300 series. An essay on Smith will appear monthly throughout 2023 ...

Learn about our editorial policies Adam Smith was an 18th-century Scottish economist, philosopher, and author who is considered the father of modern economics. Smith argued against mercantilism ...

Adam Smith attended Glasgow as a student. He would later become the chair of moral philosophy at Glasgow (“economics professor” was not yet a job at this point in history). Craig Smith writes ...

As well as ahistorical and monolithic, says Glory M. Liu, author of Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism. To Liu, the Adam Smith most familiar ...

Yet in her new book, Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism, Glory Liu suggests that long-standing interpretative debates about tensions in Smith ...

A rare book annotated by Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith is to go on display in his home town in Fife. The book by philosopher John Locke, Two Treatises of Civil Government ...