Adam Smith published his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776, adding a second revolutionary event to that fateful year. A political democracy was born on one side ...

Adam Smith writes and publishes his influential book The Wealth of Nations. Video: A history of Scotland: The Price of Progress.

If you put 50 randomly selected American academic economists in a room and ask them what they thought of raising tariffs as a ...

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 ...

"Smith Adam." Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2001 ... From 1766 to 1776, he lived in Kirkcaldy, preparing The Wealth of Nations (1776). Smith was appointed commissioner of customs in Edinburgh ...

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President Donald Trump calls tariff "the most beautiful word in the dictionary." This refutes the orthodoxy of unilateral ...

The author is an economic columnist and CEO of Geuljaengi.Inc. Adam Smith, the founding father of economics, mentioned the “invisible hand” only once in “The Wealth of Nations” (1776).