Rare book with handwritten notes by Adam Smith to go on display - An annotated volume, part of the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher’s library, is being displayed in his home town of Kirkcaldy ...

As his namesake, economist Adam C. Smith, notes in this month's interview , Smith's effort to be descriptive rather than proscriptive, as well as a healthy strain of anti-elitism from a man who ...

Did Adam Smith—celebrated hero of free trade—make a big exception for reasons of national defense? Would he support the Jones ...

In doing so, however, they provide further evidence that Adam Smith got there first. Before discussing the concept of value in “The Wealth of Nations” (1776), Smith notes the importance of ...

The search was on for a more compassionate Adam Smith, and this has resulted in what has been described as "an unseemly battle for his soul". That battle is far from over.

If Adam Smith were alive and writing today, would he value unpaid work like cooking his dinner or raising children and what impact would that have on the foundations of economic thinking?

Adam Smith Said Colonists Should Join the British Union. ... There was an outpouring of ironic writing in mid–18th century Britain, as Wayne C. Booth notes in his 1974 study, ...

Adam Smith could engage with these issues because his system had an end that was not just an extension of the present, and an imaginative space in which to reconceive present possibilities.