Her expertise is in personal finance and investing, and real estate. Learn about our editorial policies Adam Smith was an 18th-century Scottish economist, philosopher, and author who is considered ...

Learn about the "invisible hand," a key economic concept introduced by Adam Smith, and its implications in free markets.

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 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".

Given this zeitgeist, a book on the moral philosophy of Adam Smith is timely indeed. While Smith may be the founder of modern economics, he was first and foremost a professor of moral philosophy. Yet ...

To some scholars, Adam Smith confined the theory according to which exchangeable value is determined by the labor embodied in different goods to societies of independent laborers directly exchanging ...

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 ...

Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2014 (Credit: Getty Images) Adam Smith has spent 18 years recording the moments after the world's brightest minds receive a life-changing call ...

FIU’s Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom will host five distinguished Senior Leadership Fellows this fall: the former president of Mexico, the former defense secretary general of Nicaragua, the ...

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BELLEVUE, Wash. — About 20 people were yelling outside of U.S. Congressman Adam Smith's home early Saturday morning as part of a demonstration. Bellevue police received calls from multiple ...

The Adam Smith Series F £20 note was first issued in 2007. The note is 149mm x 80mm and is made of a strong paper produced from cotton and linen rags. Security features - a watermark and the ...