T o Thomas Carlyle, it was “one of the shabbiest gospels ever preached”. Adam Smith was an early fan, but was still ...

This wasn’t always the case. If we look back to philosophers such as Adam Smith and Karl Marx, discussions of political economy were deeply intertwined with questions of morality. More recently, these ...

Introduce them to Adam Smith and Karl Marx, Glenn Beck and Greta Thunberg, and they will emerge better armed to navigate the messy marketplace of adult opinion. By suppressing half the political ...

One could hardly write a multi-century history of opposition to capitalism without devoting chapters to Karl Marx, John Maynard ... economist and philosopher Adam Smith, for instance, was reacting ...

In Das Kapital, Karl Marx outlined a historical progression of socioeconomic ... best under minimal government interference and no cronyism for special interests. Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” ...

But sometimes the crank is Karl Marx ... debates about Marx’s understanding of capitalism. The phrase appears in a section in which Marx attempts to refute Adam Smith’s account of the origins ...

He was the other founder of classic economic theory, after Adam Smith, and his “comparative ... He influenced Karl Marx, and he also influenced very capitalist thinkers. His theory of rents ...

each is welcome at St. John's College—where students encounter Adam Smith and Karl Marx; St. Augustine and Friedrich Nietzsche; James Baldwin and Virginia Woolf. Here, there are no secondary ...

We'll hear from Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and some surprising guests as they teach us a little bit more economics, and offer a lot of life advice. But first, we have to wrap up ...

Mark Skousen via Google Books. "The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes," Page 36. Ibiblio. "An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations ...

Another problem has to do with ethics. He says in contrast to economists from Adam Smith and Karl Marx through John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, and even Milton Friedman, mainstream ...