The invisible hand is a concept that was coined by economist Adam Smith to illustrate hidden economic ... According to these ideas, as people act based on their own self-interest, it creates ...

Excerpt and condensation of Chapter 4 from The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas ... the study of economics for beginning students for more than 40 years. Adam Smith published ...

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 ...

One of my long-ago professors–not an economist, and not a political conservative– sometimes said that Adam Smith was just ...

Ideas That Changed the World explores contemporary life and Smith’s influences on the very things we see going on today. Why is Smith widely studied now in China? Ethical businesses, like Whole ...

What would philosopher and political economist Adam Smith think of Donald Trump’s love of tariffs? What would he make of the Republican president’s approach to taxes and deregulation?