Messrs. Pooley and Gilder remind us that the book’s themes remain fresh.

You could call them the three pillars of the American Idea. These three pillars are the direct gifts to America of three great thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment: Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, ...

Chew traces the ur-moment of this revival of America’s corporate and stock market fortunes, and the invention of “modern corporate finance”, to a classroom at Carnegie-Mellon university in 1957 when ...

The concept of the invisible hand is often credited to economist Adam Smith, as the term appeared in his 1759 work, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments," and again in "The Wealth of Nations" in 1776.

IT was in 1776, the year of the American Declaration of Independence, that celebrated economist Adam Smith’s magnum opus ...

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

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 ...

The author is an economic columnist and CEO of Geuljaengi.Inc. Adam Smith, the founding father of economics, mentioned the ...

This refutes the orthodoxy of unilateral free trade championed for hundreds of years beginning with the 1776 "Wealth of Nations" author Adam Smith, widely known as the father of modern economics.