Given this zeitgeist, a book on the moral philosophy of Adam Smith is timely indeed. While Smith may be the founder of modern economics, he was first and foremost a professor of moral philosophy. Yet ...

Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg, in his interview in the issue of March 1 (“‘You can’t spend on everything’”, Lunch with the FT, FT Weekend, March 1), cites Adam Smith ...

At the very beginning of the industrial revolution, Smith pointed out not only slavery’s vanities and vices, but its economic contradictions. That’s the subject of the November Adam Smith 300 ...