Government Comes After Costco, Walmart, and Sam’s Club’s Business Model Three-hundred years after his birth, the influence of the father of economics lives on. This year, Adam Smith, considered the ...

I’ve long thought that calling Adam Smith the father of economics seriously understates his significance. In some ways he was indeed the first economist, and The Wealth of Nations, published 250 years ...

Economic success is often measured in numbers, output, trade, growth, wealth. But Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, measured a society by something far more human: the condition of its ...

Quote of the Day: A powerful Quote of the Day does more than sound wise; it asks us to pause and examine how we think, judge, and act in our everyday lives. Some quotes endure not because they offer ...

Jesse Norman is the author of “Adam Smith: Father of Economics.” His new book on Adam Smith will be published later this year. On March 9, 1776, four months before the American colonies broke with ...