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At a time when economics and politics are both increasingly polarized between left and right, this book, Adam Smith: What He Thought, and W...

From the latest ( Vol. 32 No. 2 Spring 2018 ) issue of the  Journal of Economic Perspectives . Retrospectives: Adam Smith's Discovery ...

The album Silent Revolution by The Benevolent Dictators is an album in which the songs draw on material from the works of Adam Smith. Four...

Great news, the album Silent Revolution  by The Benevolent Dictators is now available. The album is based on the works of Adam Smith. What ...

In this audio from EconTalk Russ Roberts interviews Dennis Rasmussen about Rasmussen's new book " The Infidel and the Professor:...

In the comments to the previous posting " A brief prehistory of the theory of the firm 2 " Mark Hubbard asks , I have no great...

This is the latest version of the paper and is likely the last version. I can't be bothered making any more corrections or additions to ...

In a recent posting on the death of Kenneth Arrow Tim Harford writes, Two achievements [of Arrow's work] are particularly celebrated...

A first draft of a new working paper on the (pre)history of the theory of the firm/theory of production. The mainstream theory of the firm...

"Silent Revolution" by The Benevolent Dictators . The first song from the upcoming album about Adam Smith. Inspired by Book 3, Cha...

James R. Otteson reminds us of this point made by Adam Smith on incentives and teaching: "In other universities the teacher is prohi...

EJW Audios Erwin Dekker on Carl Menger on Adam Smith Erwin Dekker and Stefan Kolev have provided in EJW a first-ever English translation...

The short answer is yes. Adam Smith argued that the an increasing division of labour was a driver of technological improvement, increases ...

That Adam Smith was not a huge fan of the joint stock company is well known. But what exactly did he think and why did he think it? And why ...

Yesterday (5th June) many people wished Adam Smith happy birthday assuming that he has just turned 293, but has he? His gravestone gives Jun...

Gavin Kennedy is Emeritus Professor at Edinburgh Business School, Herio-Watt University and author of" Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy" (...

One of the many things Adam Smith taught us is that the ultimate goal of economic activity is consumption and not as many people, most famou...

The other day I argued that one thing Adam Smith could have done but didn't was develop a theory of the firm. He had building blocks th...

In short, not many and the things he got right far outweigh the things he got wrong, but as  James R.  Otteson  argues in his book " Ad...

From the World Economic Forum comes a list of The 20 most influential books in history . The top ten are,