Many people make dubious claims about Adam Smith's beliefs. The usual pattern is to claim that the economist was not really ... after Smith's death. Cannan quotes Kames' rules regarding taxation ...

Adam Smith is rightly described as the father of modern economics, but this passage reminds us that he was also a moral philosopher who spent a lot of time thinking about issues of justice and ...

Learn about our editorial policies Adam Smith was an 18th-century Scottish economist, philosopher, and author who is considered the father of modern economics. Smith argued against mercantilism ...

When I look back on college, there are few things I can remember learning. One was that you can throw up well after you think you’re done. On one particularly hungover morning, I called the ...

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 ...

Reviewing Prof. Glory Liu’s “Adam Smith’s America” (Books, Dec. 17), Barton Swaim shares his judgment that Smith’s “Theory of Moral Sentiments” “isn’t very good,” adding ...

"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".