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

George Gilder and Gale Pooley may point to an application in which a version of it should be revived.

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 ...

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 ...

The 18th-century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith is credited with writing the first great work on political economy. His treatise "The Wealth of Nations" describes the evolution and political ...

Known as "the father of modern economics," Adam Smith was a Scottish economist, philosopher, and author who lived in the 18th century. Most are familiar with Smith's book entitled, "The Wealth of ...

The concept of the invisible hand is often credited to economist Adam Smith, as the term appeared in his 1759 work, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments," and again in "The Wealth of Nations" in 1776.

(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 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 rest of the world now must ...

As to the administration of justice, Smith says that the duty of the government is to protect “as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice or oppression of every other member of ...