Economics

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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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: 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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The Cambridge Companion to Keynes

John Maynard Keynes is so often called the “most influential economist of the twentieth century” that it has become a…

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10 Things You Might Not Know About Karl Marx

1. Karl Marx (1818-1883) was one of nine children born to Heinrich and Henrietta Marx. His parents raised him in…

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10 Things You Might Not Know About John Maynard Keynes

1.John Maynard Keynes was born into a successful family. His father was John Neville Keynes, a formidable economist in his…

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Economy Class: Nicholas Wapshott Explains Why John Maynard Keynes Was “Ahead of His Time”

John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) was an influential British economist whose ideas on government intervention in the economy were considered to…

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Economy Class: Nicholas Wapshott Explains Why John Maynard Keynes Was “Ahead of His Time”

  John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) was an influential British economist whose ideas on government intervention in the economy were considered to…

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The Road to Hayek: Nicholas Wapshott on the Life and Work of Economist Friedrich Hayek

Austrian-born British economist Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992) is best known for his defense of classical liberalism and what is now called…

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Keynes: The Twentieth Century’s Most Influential Economist

Ever since the current financial crisis began in 2007, one name started reappearing in the newspapers. Not that John Maynard…

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