T his year, Adam Smith, considered the father of economics, turns 300. How relevant is his free-market model today? Would he approve of trillion-dollar deficits, ever-growing regulations, the ...

Adam Smith may fairly claim to be the father, not of economics generally—that would be absurd—but of what in modern times has been called, with opprobrious intention, "bourgeois economics ...

Adam Smith (1723-1790) put together the classical model of economics, consisting of free trade, limited government, the virtue of thrift, balanced budgets and sound money.

Economics An Interview With Adam Smith (No, Not That One) The so-called father of capitalism was not available for comment, so we talked to another economist, Adam C. Smith.

Adam Smith is considered the father of modern economics for his work in pioneering ideas such as free trade and the gross domestic product (GDP).

The author of The Wealth of Nations and the father of modern conservatism shared an economic outlook guided by liberty and self-command. Adam Smith was born in 1723. This year he turns 300.

Adam Smith was the “Father of Capitalism,” and Capitalism has done more to improve the lives of people than any form of faux altruism or big government socialism on earth.

The Wealth of Nations" is a seminal text of economic thought published by Scottish philosopher Adam Smith in 1776.

Adam Smith, the founding father of economics, mentioned the “invisible hand” only once in “The Wealth of Nations” (1776). His reference came in opposition to measures that restricted ...

This refutes the orthodoxy of unilateral free trade championed for hundreds of years beginning with the 1776 “Wealth of Nations” author Adam Smith, widely known as the father of modern economics.

Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1776) is still appropriately considered the first great work in modern economics.