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

If Adam Smith is to be made "accessible" in these days, an abbreviated edition of "The Wealth of Nations" is necessary. This present little volume gives the substance of that epoch-making book.

In doing so, however, they provide further evidence that Adam Smith got there first. Before discussing the concept of value in “The Wealth of Nations” (1776), Smith notes the importance of ...

All nations have similar goals. The three primary goals are national security and defence, economic prosperity, and the ...

Aleppo and Edinburgh became unlikely partners, connecting worlds through trade, science and the exchange of ideas ...

In a volatile global economic environment, headline GDP can be overly influenced by exogenous shocks like the ‘Trump tariff'.

Drug companies—and innovation—will suffer thanks to Trump’s executive order.

Unalienable rights and self-evident truths are the two core ideas of the American founding. Expand the number of core ideas under consideration to three and you get unalienable rights, self-evident ...

China is the planet’s land of rising opportunity. In the wake of China’s rise, there is much for the Caribbean, Latin America ...

Opinion: When our trading partners impose high tariffs on American goods they are essentially stealing from us.

Steve Bartlett, former congressman and mayor of Dallas says the very idea of a trade deficit is misleading. The plain fact is ...