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 ...

But Adam Smith did not approve of accumulation for accumulation's sake. He was, after all, a philosopher, with a philosopher's disdain for the vanity of riches. Rather, in the accumulation of ...

The 18th-century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith is credited with writing the first great work on political economy. His treatise "The Wealth of Nations" describes the evolution and political ...

A rare book annotated by Scottish philosopher Adam Smith which was one of a minority not to be destroyed by him will go on display in his home town of Kirkcaldy, Fife. Smith, who became a leading ...

The essential feature of capitalism is the motive to make a profit. As Adam Smith, the 18th century philosopher and father of modern economics, said: “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, ...