Adam Smith

Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life

Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life by Nicholas Phillipson is a deeply probing historical biography. This book plunges into the depths of…

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10 Things You Might Not Know About Adam Smith

1.While studying at Balliol College at Oxford, Adam Smith became absent-minded at the dinner table, which was common for him.…

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Adam Smith and the Founding of Market Economics

In 2005, the Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan delivered the Adam Smith Memorial Lecture in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. Here, at…

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Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy

Adam Smith: Life, Thought and Legacy is an expansive work about one of history’s most important thinkers and political economists.…

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“Bound by The World Order in Which He Lived”: Gavin Kennedy on Why Adam Smith Was a Realist, Not an Ideologue

The author of what is widely considered to be “the Bible of capitalism,” Adam Smith (1723–1790) was a Scottish philosopher and economist…

5 years ago

Adam Smith: A Moral Philosopher and His Political Economy

By re-examining Adam Smith’s theories as they were originally articulated, Gavin Kennedy, Emeritus Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, aims at nothing…

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Home Improvement: Adam Smith’s House Gets a Facelift

During his lifetime, Scottish political economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith (1723–1790) had lived in many houses, including his childhood…

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Adam Smith

The author of what is widely considered to be “the Bible of capitalism,” Adam Smith (1723–1790) was a Scottish philosopher and…

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