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 ...

On March 9, 1776, four months before the American colonies broke with Britain over the issue of taxation, a little-known Scottish thinker published a long, dense book with an unpromising title: “An ...

Adam Smith is not who you think he is. Long hailed as the founder of modern economics and the father of capitalism, the 18th-century Scottish thinker was not only an economist and the author of The ...

On the occasion of his 300th birthday, Adam Smith—the Scottish Enlightenment luminary and so-called father of capitalism—was not available for comment, despite attempts to contact him via Ouija board ...

In the middle of the 18th century, philosopher and economist Adam Smith wrote that behavior is guided by an “Impartial Spectator.” Almost a century later, St. John Henry Newman addressed the “Moral ...

Short term paid parking available in lots 404, 406, or 423. More information or questions can be found on the Parking and Transportation website, or call 303-735-7275. Seventeen years before Adam ...

"In political oeconomy, I think Smith's wealth of nations the best book extant." So Thomas Jefferson wrote to a friend. Three hundred years after Adam Smith's inauspicious birth in Kirkcaldy, it's not ...

User-Created Clip by zlowe January 13, 2023 2022-12-04T20:24:44-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/bea/001/1670203597_001.jpg Harvard University lecturer Glory Liu ...

Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (TWON), published on March 9, 1776, shares the year of its birth with the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Both documents ...

When I was an undergraduate studying economics some friends baked me a cake, whether for a birthday or end of term I don’t ...