Video Clip 5: Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations (2:25) Scott Christianson talked about his book, 100 Documents that Changed the World: From the Magna Carta to Wikileaks. In this clip ...

Adam Smith is not who ... economist and the author of The Wealth of Nations; he was also a moral philosopher and the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Smith considered his work in moral ...

such as London’s Adam Smith Institute. For the bicentennial of The Wealth of Nations, the Graduate Economics Association of M.I.T. held a roast at which they gave an “Invisible Hand Award ...

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 ...

Admirers of Adam Smith may ... the basic point about Smith’s economic views isn’t in doubt. His magnum opus, “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” (1776 ...

Adam Smith died on July 17, 1790, at age 68, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was buried in Canongate Kirkyard. In "The Wealth of Nations", Smith popularized many of the ideas that form the basis for ...

Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations was a revolutionary event in 1776 — an intellectual shot heard around the world. It attacked an economic system prevalent throughout European civilization, both in ...

In 1926, the 150th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations, British economist Edwin Cannan delivered a lecture titled "Adam Smith as Economist" at the London School of Economics. The lecture was ...

"The Wealth of Nations" is an influential text published by Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith in 1776. Its full title is "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations".

If Adam Smith is to be made "accessible" in these days, an abbreviated edition of "The Wealth of Nations" is necessary. This present little volume gives the substance of that epoch-making book.