It was correct for Benjamin Enke, the Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University, to point out that previous discussions of political economy “were deeply intertwined ...

As doctrines go, there is not much difference among Jeffersonian liberalism, Marxist socialism and Jesus’ teachings. If you ...

The labor theory of value figured prominently in the work of such thinkers as Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx.

Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” metaphor suggested that broad economic prosperity would emerge as individuals pursued their own interests within a rule-of-law framework. Further, humans acting ...

Exploring the literary inclinations of John Maynard Keynes, Adam Smith and Karl Marx, Adam explores how a shift in the order in which students study the subject can explain a lot about modern ...

Karl Marx is best classified as a human welfare philosopher, one concerned with the existential progress of people, just like Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Adam Smith, not to mention the French ...

Marx couldn’t predict the future, and neither can we. But, as he once put it, “the philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.” ...

We'll hear from Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and some surprising guests as they teach us a little bit more economics, and offer a lot of life advice.

We'll hear from Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes and some surprising guests as they provide a little bit of economics and a lot of life advice. It's been 5,000 years in the making.