We live in an era of collapsing public confidence in the foundations of our way of life, and the market economy has been no exception. Polls show declining support for capitalism, especially among the ...

The connections between Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and Theory of Moral Sentiments reveal a much more complicated ...

I was struck by local Other Voices columnist Tom DeChaine’s July 25 argument linking capitalism with our Constitution and his attempts to argue for one form of capitalism (Adam Smith’s laissez-faire ...

Once a system celebrating productivity and enterprise, capitalism in 2025 is increasingly defined by share buybacks and financial engineering. This shift from long-term value creation to short-term ...

Adam Smith’s "The Wealth of Nations" is turning 250 this year. It is, perhaps, not completely coincidental that this original capitalist tome was first published in 1776 — the same year the ...

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Jefferson kept a full set of Smith’s volumes at Monticello, later calling “The Wealth of Nations” simply “the best book extant.” Franklin continued to meet with Smith and Hume while in London, and ...