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 ...

This policy orientation was christened ‘liberal’ by Scotsmen Adam Smith, William Robertson and others. In 1776, Smith’s ‘The ...

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 ...

Smith and his long-time co-author Bart J ... Integrating insights from The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations into contemporary empirical analysis, this book shapes economic ...

a portrait of Adam Smith’s mother, Margaret Douglas, and a first edition of Volume One of The Wealth of Nations which launched his career. During his life, Smith travelled throughout Europe and ...

A rare book annotated by Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith is to go on display in his home town in Fife. The book by philosopher John Locke, Two Treatises of Civil Government, complete ...

It’s conventional wisdom in business that bigger is better, and that being able to scale is an essential element of a company ...

Civilization is easily taken for granted. In The Wealth of Nations, the 1776 work that is the foundation of modern economics, ...

Evolutionary theory in economics suggests that economic processes change and develop over time. This theory is influenced by ...