Nearly three centuries after his death, Adam Smith continues to influence socioeconomic thinking and academia, according to Jerry Muller, professor emeritus of history at the Catholic University of ...

A closeup portrait of Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations. Contributor The man largely credited with inventing marketplace capitalism, Adam Smith, lived at home with his mother. While he wrote ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...