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 ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/1883613 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1883613 Doctrinal supremacy of Wealth of Nations from 1776 to 1810, 430.--Theory of money alone ...

Tax principles laid down in 1776 by Adam Smith remain remarkably relevant, though his list has been extended since. We must ...

Even Friedrich List might raise an eyebrow at Trump’s approach. One could imagine him advising the new president: “Tariffs ...

Adam Smith labeled the machine the “invisible hand.” In The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, Smith, widely considered the father of economics, emphasized the economy’s self-regulating nature—that ...

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 ...