Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This clip provides definitions and a discussion on current perspectives on socialism and capitalism. Polling data about these economic systems among ...

The tercentenary of Adam Smith’s birth is an opportunity to consider how his insights into the dynamics of economic growth continue to shape our understanding of the world today. But what if the ...

More than 245 years ago, an unassuming Scottish tutor to a young British duke published a sprawling manuscript about how, when, and why nations become materially prosperous. At first glance, An ...

AI deference, taken to its extreme, corrupts the foundations of moral life Adam Smith understood that moral development and ...

George Gilder and Gale Pooley rightly note that a useful measure of how much things cost is how long we must work to earn enough to purchase them (“We Should Measure Prices in Time,” op-ed, April 17).

"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 Smith's inauspicious birth in Kirkcaldy, it's not ...

In the face of a slowing economy, it is hard to ignore a report from the Council on Foreign Relations which details how closing the gender pay gap could add a staggering $28 trillion to the global GDP ...