Adam Smith wrote "The Wealth of Nations" and invented modern economics. With Artificial Intelligence, we summoned him for a ...

Adam Smith favored neither state socialism nor unbridled markets, but something subtler: a moral economy grounded in sympathy and the pursuit of human flourishing. In a world where markets look ...

We live in an era of collapsing public confidence in the foundations of our way of life, and the market economy has been no exception. Polls show declining support for capitalism, especially among the ...

Kirkcaldy, a small town on Scotland’s east coast, is a nice place. But aside from a small alleyway, Adam Smith Close, the town has largely forgotten that Adam Smith lived there. The Adam Smith ...

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 ...

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