He is a senior scholar at The Fund for American Studies and the author, most recently, of The Essential Adam Smith and Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society.

Noah Smith, of the Noahpinion newsletter, has offered this quote to claim that Adam Smith favored income redistribution: "Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very ...

Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly Adam Smith’s last will and testament ... about the rich and powerful. Merchants and landlords are almost exclusively painted as people who ...

"In political oeconomy, I think Smith's wealth of nations the best book extant." So Thomas Jefferson wrote to a friend. Three hundred years after Adam ... the Facebook page "Quotes from ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Washington Congressman Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the ... where he said - and I'm going to quote him here - "if any of these guys don't think I should run ...

Then Cass could justly invoke Adam Smith.” For Klein’s full analysis and his numerous direct quotations from Smith’s work, read his whole essay here.

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 ...

Economist and philosopher Adam Smith ... all time. Of Smith’s two best-known works, the Theory Of Moral Sentiments, published in 1759, and 1776’s Wealth Of Nations, the quote above is taken ...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) knew when he hit rock bottom. “I woke up one morning in early April of 2016 and seriously considered the possibility that I might never be able to get ...

The 300th anniversary of Adam Smith’s ... The person who embodied Smith’s ideal of virtue was not the merchant, but rather the “country gentleman”. Such a landlord was never greedy because ...

London renters must work 197 days of the year on average to pay their landlords before they can start earning for themselves, according to a new report. The Adam Smith Institute (ASI) has branded ...

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