Capitalism: A Global History, by Sven Beckert, Penguin Press, 1,344 pages, $49 Adam Smith, widely considered the first major ...

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 ...

Adam Smith’s gravesite and statue in Scotland were included in a list of monuments linked to “slavery and colonialism” by a city council review panel and could be slated for removal. A review group ...

For a year-end read, try Harvard historian Sven Beckert's new book, ‘Capitalism: A Global History.’ It traces the global ...

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 ...

The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account ...

Harvard social studies researcher Liu debuts with an intricate and provocative analysis of Scottish moral philosopher Adam Smith’s influence on U.S. politics and business. Though Smith has become ...

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This year marks the 300th anniversary of Adam Smith, the iconic figure behind the theory of free markets, or of what we have since come to call “capitalism.” Born in June 1723, Smith went on to ...