Adam Smith. Father of capitalism. Coined "the invisible hand." Wrote the oft referred to but rarely read, "Wealth of Nations." He was also a deeply odd guy who mumbled to himself in public ...

Adam Smith published a book entitled "The Wealth of Nations", and he became viewed as, and is still regarded by some as the ...

Adam Smith published his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776, adding a second revolutionary event to that fateful year. A political democracy was born on one side ...

Adam Smith defined how we think about free markets. His guiding principle was, famously, the invisible hand – a mystical ...

And from at least the time of Adam Smith's 1776 "Wealth of Nations" to 1998's Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Jared Diamond, "Guns, Germs, and Steel," people have speculated why some areas of the globe ...

Eisler wrestles conventional “wisdom” to the ground, challenging the assumptions that have supported the practice of business and economic policy for the last two centuries, since Adam Smith’s ...

Adam Smith taught us that trade is not a zero-sum game 250 years ago. Trump may not have read his Wealth of Nations, but the ...

President Donald Trump’s tariff moves are distinctively dramatic, but are part of a longer-term trend. Protectionism has been ...

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Adam Smith balked at restraints on free trade ‘either by high duties, or by absolute prohibitions’. The return of high tariffs in the US under Donald Trump and Joe Biden mark the end of the era of ...

From early in World War II, the United States led a broad movement toward freer trade that has been the foundation of our unprecedented postwar prosperity. That may be changing. President Donald Trump ...