Monday, March 9, marks 250 years since the publication of Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of ...

Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (TWON), published on March 9, 1776, shares the year of its birth with the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Both documents ...

Adam Smith’s free-markets masterwork, published on March 9, 1776, was about much more than economics. Jesse Norman is the author of “Adam Smith: Father of Economics.” His new book on Adam Smith will ...

We should know Adam Smith as the father of capitalism. His crowning achievement became free market gospel, but somehow he is left out of the Wall Street brochure. The ignorance of Adam Smith’s ...

Discover the evolution of economics from ancient times to modern theories that influence global markets, including Adam Smith and Keynesian approaches.

Quote of the Day: A powerful Quote of the Day does more than sound wise; it asks us to pause and examine how we think, judge, and act in our everyday lives. Some quotes endure not because they offer ...

Katrine Marçal charts the myth of ‘economic man’ – from its origins at Adam Smith’s dinner table to its adaptation by the Chicago School and finally its disastrous role in the 2008 Global Financial ...