The assault on Enlightenment values is tearing both Europe and America apart.

From the founding fathers of the philosophies to modern-day Nobel Prize winners, these famous economists have changed the ...

The concept of the ‘invisible hand’, introduced by Adam Smith in ‘The Wealth of Nations’, suggests that markets self-regulate ...

Karl Marx’s Das Kapital and Adam Smith’s treaties were freely quoted, but there was little debate on the ‘dialectic materialism’ of the former or the merits of free trade of the latter. Not to be ...

It tells a story of the origins of economics through the lives and ideas of the field’s founding fathers, including some we’ve all heard of, like Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes ...

A lecture on the first published translation of Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital” in half a century was held on Thursday in the Fine ...

I’m referring to Baruch Spinoza and Karl Marx. In Western modernity ... diplomacy and unequal contracts were invented. Adam Smith warned that unequal contracts exist whenever there is an ...

This wasn’t always the case. If we look back to philosophers such as Adam Smith and Karl Marx, discussions of political economy were deeply intertwined with questions of morality. More recently, these ...