The tercentenary of Adam Smith’s birth is an opportunity to consider how his insights into the dynamics of economic growth continue to shape our understanding of the world today. But what if the ...

Adam Smith has become the symbol of American capitalism, a champion of free trade and a free market. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, it sometimes seems as if capitalism and America share the ...

Excerpt and condensation of Chapter 4 from The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner, 7th ed., 1999. Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly ...

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Nearly 250 years ago, Adam Smith identified two potential constraints on economic specialization: the “extent of the market” and the inevitable risks. Today, the risk constraint is proving to be the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This clip provides definitions and a discussion on current perspectives on socialism and capitalism. Polling data about these economic systems among ...

Wonder Land: Inspired by China and Saudi Arabia, Team Biden's vision for U.S. industrial policy is one in which the government explicitly leads; everyone else follows. Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images ...

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George Gilder and Gale Pooley rightly note that a useful measure of how much things cost is how long we must work to earn enough to purchase them (“We Should Measure Prices in Time,” op-ed, April 17).