Interestingly, this train of thought led me to Adam Smith and his concept of the “economic man”. Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations famously states, “It is not from the benevolence of the ...

Adam Smith is not who you think he is ... To make his argument, Sagar offers a portrait of Smith not as an economist or a moral philosopher but as a political thinker par excellence.

A portrait of Adam Smith ... 13 DSJ: What role did Adam Smith’s economic thought play in US debates about slavery? I was, for instance, quite intrigued that Frederick Douglass was a reader ...

Thanks to Milton Friedman—who enjoyed sporting a necktie emblazoned with cameo portraits ... century economist became a logo for the movement. Conservative activists printed Adam Smith neckties ...

But he is not the only Adam Smith. For this special anniversary issue of Reason, we spoke with another, less-deceased economist named Adam C. Smith, this one a professor at Johnson & Wales ...

This year, Adam Smith, considered the father of economics, turns 300. How relevant is his free-market model today? Would he approve of trillion-dollar deficits, ever-growing regulations, ...

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 ...

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In a well-received essay, the British economic historian Emma Rothschild argued that Adam Smith’s thinking was at least as much a precursor of what has come to be known as “the left” as of ...

Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly Adam Smith’s last ... and the will confirmed what Smith’s friends had long suspected: The Scottish economist, who always earned an above ...