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A dam Smith’s investigation into what we now call “economic development” in his landmark book An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was first published 248 years ago ...

Adam Smith was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher; he is considered the father of modern economics. Smith is most famous for his 1776 book, "The Wealth of Nations." ...

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.

His magnum opus, “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” (1776), made the case that economic growth is not the result of governmental planning but the natural outcome ...

Adam Smith was the first to study and write about economics as an academic subject worthy of study and exploration. Before Smith, wealth distribution was considered to be “God’s Will,” so as ...

Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism by Glory M. Liu Buy on Bookshop Princeton University Press, 384 pp., $35.00 ...

In doing so, however, they provide further evidence that Adam Smith got there first. Before discussing the concept of value in “The Wealth of Nations” (1776), Smith notes the importance of ...

Reviewing Prof. Glory Liu’s “Adam Smith’s America” (Books, Dec. 17), Barton Swaim shares his judgment that Smith’s “Theory of Moral Sentiments” “isn’t very good,” adding: “It ...

Three centuries before Glasgow hosted the COP26 conference aimed at mitigating climate change, it played home to Adam Smith, often credited as the “father of economics.” ...