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 ...

Protectionism has been growing since the last phase of the Obama administration. The administration’s Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) treaty negotiations initially garnered strong bipartisan support, ...

The 18th-century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith is credited with writing the ... only through the efficient operations of private industrial and commercial entrepreneurs acting with a minimum ...