Capitalism: A Global History, by Sven Beckert, Penguin Press, 1,344 pages, $49 Adam Smith, widely considered the first major ...
For a year-end read, try Harvard historian Sven Beckert's new book, ‘Capitalism: A Global History.’ It traces the global ...
The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account ...
I was struck by local Other Voices columnist Tom DeChaine’s July 25 argument linking capitalism with our Constitution and his attempts to argue for one form of capitalism (Adam Smith’s laissez-faire ...
In September, 1639, John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, recorded in his journal a dreadful tale of Puritan true crime. One Robert Keayne had prospered as a London merchant ...
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 is an Enlightenment-era moral philosopher best known for writing “The Wealth of Nations,” a founding text of modern economics that checks in at more than 900 dense pages -- enough to ...
It’s not infrequently said that Adam Smith “invented” capitalism with his publication The Wealth of Nations, but the real truth (one stressed by Matthew Hennessey in Visible Hand) is that Smith ...
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