While Adam Smith has played an important historical role in the development of economic thought, as Murray Rothbard pointed ...

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Thank a Scot for our 100-fold increase in America’s standard of living. Monday, June 5, marks the 300th birthday of a Scottish philosopher considered the father of free-enterprise capitalism and our ...

Economist Mark Skousen reflects on the enduring influence of Adam Smith’s ideas in "The Making of Modern Economics" LOS ...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1723-90) was published on 9 March 1776. It met with instant success.

Not far from the grave, I found the Panmure House, a 17th-century townhouse which is the only surviving residence of Smith, ...

The Border Tax Is Back, and It’s Still a Terrible Idea Are We All Marxists Now? No, Mr. President, Section 122 Tariffs Won’t Work Either The Wealth of Nations was published 248 years ago today, and ...

On the occasion of his 300th birthday, Adam Smith—the Scottish Enlightenment luminary and so-called father of capitalism—was not available for comment, despite attempts to contact him via Ouija board ...

The author of The Wealth of Nations and the father of modern conservatism shared an economic outlook guided by liberty and self-command. Adam Smith was born in 1723. This year he turns 300. To ...

Did our AI summary help? Tax the rich. Trash the tariffs. End monopolies. Such are the rallying calls of many of today's most heated economic debates. They could also come straight from the pen of ...