‘How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness’, by Russ Roberts on facebook (opens in a new window) ‘How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An ...

RUSS ROBERTS is president of Shalem College, host of the EconTalk podcast, and author of How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness (Portfolio).

And hence it is, that to feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature ... capable ...

And much more could be said about the array of Smith’s brilliant insights concerning moral feelings and human nature. For that, though, I’ll leave you to read How Adam Smith Can Change Your ...

This year we celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Adam ... Smith wrote. "It is the necessary, though very slow and gradual, [evolutionary] consequence of a certain propensity in human ...

Smith's work discusses the evolution of human ... Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations". The ideas he popularized live on in the classical school of economics, and in institutions like the ...

"The Wealth of Nations" is an influential text published by Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith in 1776. Its full title is "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations".

Smith grappled with how to advance well-being and prosperity at a time of great change. The Industrial Revolution was ushering in new technologies that would revolutionize the nature ... it means to ...