Capitalism and economic globalization have no shortage of critics. As Cassidy shows, their criticisms have remained strikingly consistent over the centuries.

Protectionism has been growing since the last phase of the Obama administration. The administration’s Trans-Pacific ...

At the very beginning of the industrial revolution, Smith pointed out not only slavery’s vanities and vices, but its economic contradictions. That’s the subject of the November Adam Smith 300 ...

Adam Smith published his Inquiry into the Nature ... he did not see a revolution -- the Industrial Revolution. Smith did not see in the ugly factory system, in the newly tried corporate form ...

From early in World War II, the United States led a broad movement toward freer trade that has been the foundation of our ...

Smith himself was Scottish and ... British versus British. Was it also a revolution? It was not like the English Revolution or the French Revolution, which saw kings beheaded.

Individual ambition serves the common good,” wrote Adam Smith, masterful eighteenth-century analyst of the emerging ...

Individual ambition serves the common good,” wrote Adam Smith, masterful eighteenth-century analyst of the emerging ...