"In political oeconomy, I think Smith's wealth of nations the best book extant." So Thomas Jefferson wrote to a friend. Three hundred years after Adam Smith's inauspicious birth in Kirkcaldy, it's not ...

Here is the awkward Scottish bachelor at his best. Anyone can follow his reasoning. His logic is indisputable. Yet at the same time he is overturning an assumption which would otherwise strike many ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This clip provides definitions and a discussion on current perspectives on socialism and capitalism. Polling data about these economic systems among ...