Dambisa Moyo, Baroness Moyo of Knightsbridge to Deliver Major Economic Address as the Keynote Speaker at the 250th Anniversary Commemoration of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations

On March 9, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith's The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, esteemed ...
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Vernon L. Smith: "Adam Smith’s Theory of Society"

Short term paid parking available in lots 404, 406, or 423. More information or questions can be found on the Parking and Transportation website, or call 303-735-7275. Seventeen years before Adam ...
Reason

An Interview With Adam Smith (No, Not That One)

On the occasion of his 300th birthday, Adam Smith—the Scottish Enlightenment luminary and so-called father of capitalism—was not available for comment, despite attempts to contact him via Ouija board ...
Reason

Adam Smith at 300: The Gospel of Mutual Service

In 1926, the 150th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations, British economist Edwin Cannan delivered a lecture titled "Adam Smith as Economist" at the London School of Economics. The lecture was ...
The Conversation

Five reasons Adam Smith remains Britain’s most important economist, 300 years on

Anna Plassart does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
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Adam Smith Is Known for His ‘Invisible Hand’ Theory. The Truth Is More Complex.

Adam Smith has become the symbol of American capitalism, a champion of free trade and a free market. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, it sometimes seems as if capitalism and America share the ...
The Nation

Virtue and Vice

Adam Smith is not who you think he is. Long hailed as the founder of modern economics and the father of capitalism, the 18th-century Scottish thinker was not only an economist and the author of The ...
New York Post

Thank Adam Smith for our prosperity — and hope progs don’t destroy it

Thank a Scot for our 100-fold increase in America’s standard of living. Monday, June 5, marks the 300th birthday of a Scottish philosopher considered the father of free-enterprise capitalism and our ...
PBS

Adam Smith and the Origin of Capitalism

Excerpt and condensation of Chapter 4 from The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner, 7th ed., 1999. Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly ...
Heartland

Adam Smith: Economist and Philosopher (1723 – 1790)

Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland in 1723. In 1751 he was appointed professor of logic at Glasgow University, delivering lectures in ethics, rhetoric, jurisprudence, and political ...