The book has enlivened the study of economics for beginning students for more than 40 years. Adam Smith published his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776 ...

Here is what Adam Smith says about tariffs: “Nothing, however, can be more absurd than this whole doctrine of the balance of trade …” (”Wealth of Nations,” Book IV, Chapter 3 ...

Adam Smith called it an "invisible hand" in his landmark "Wealth of Nations," gospel for the nation's founders ... We can download, read and digest great books with a handful of keystrokes. The ...

Adam Smith loved books, and he used the library he assembled ... box and pewter inkwell said to be used as Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations, as well as a glass paste portrait of Smith, created ...

I found it in abundance in the latest book by interdisciplinary scholar Riane Eisler ... business and economic policy for the last two centuries, since Adam Smith’s original Wealth of Nations. In ...

Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1776) is still appropriately considered the first great work in modern economics. Smith understands that people and geographic areas have different abilities in ...

In the 20th century, Lee Kuan Yew, the first leader of an independent Singapore, Robert B.Zoellick, former president of the ...

And from at least the time of Adam Smith's 1776 "Wealth of Nations" to 1998's Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Jared Diamond, "Guns, Germs, and Steel," people have speculated why some areas of the globe ...

Given this zeitgeist, a book on the moral philosophy of Adam Smith is timely indeed. While Smith may be the founder of modern economics, he was first and foremost a professor of moral philosophy. Yet ...