The anniversary of The Wealth of Nations falls this week. Two hundred and 50 years later, in Canberra, the book might as well have never been written.

Adam Smith’s free-markets masterwork, published on March 9, 1776, was about much more than economics. Jesse Norman is the author of “Adam Smith: Father of Economics.” His new book on Adam Smith will ...

Discover the evolution of economics from ancient times to modern theories that influence global markets, including Adam Smith and Keynesian approaches.

The tercentenary of Adam Smith’s birth is an opportunity to consider how his insights into the dynamics of economic growth continue to shape our understanding of the world today. But what if the ...

Adam Smith has become the symbol of American capitalism, a champion of free trade and a free market. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, it sometimes seems as if capitalism and America share the ...

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Excerpt and condensation of Chapter 4 from The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner, 7th ed., 1999. Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly ...

Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, revolutionized our understanding of markets, trade, and societal ambition. Beyond economics, his philosophical work explored morality and empathy, ...

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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’s mostly unreadable, to ...