George Gilder and Gale Pooley may point to an application in which a version of it should be revived.

Adam Smith published a book entitled "The Wealth of Nations", and he became viewed as, and is still regarded by some as the ...

Adam Smith defined how we think about free markets. His guiding principle was, famously, the invisible hand – a mystical ...

As to the administration of justice, Smith says that the duty of the government is to protect “as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice or oppression of every other member of ...

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a portrait of Adam Smith’s mother, Margaret Douglas, and a first edition of Volume One of The Wealth of Nations which launched his career. During his life, Smith travelled throughout Europe and ...

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

Adam Smith taught us that trade is not a zero-sum game 250 years ago. Trump may not have read his Wealth of Nations, but the rest of the world now must, says James Price Much ink has been spilled ...