All nations have similar goals. The three primary goals are national security and defence, economic prosperity, and the ...

Unalienable rights and self-evident truths are the two core ideas of the American founding. Expand the number of core ideas under consideration to three and you get unalienable rights, self-evident ...

I read Adam Smith’s “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of ... I was astounded to find all of this in a book published in 1776. Smith was the father of laissez-faire. Smith said that individuals ...

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In doing so, however, they provide further evidence that Adam Smith got there first. Before discussing the concept of value in “The Wealth of Nations” (1776), Smith notes the importance of ...

The 18th century Scottish economist Adam Smith (1723-90) propounded the “absolute ... employed in a way in which we have some advantage,” Smith wrote in his 1776 classic The Wealth of Nations. David ...

For conservatives Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, represents near secular scripture when it comes to economic ideals. Smith wrote the book in part as an explanation of why the ...

Adam Smith, a moral philosopher and economist, was born in Scotland, the son of a customs officer. In 1776 he published a book called 'An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of ...

As Smith noted in The Wealth of Nations (1776), “things which have the greatest ... Tim Jackson as etched in his consequential book, PROSPERITY WITHOUT GROWTH. In the same manner, water has ...

It's called a book. During the Cuban missile crisis of ... THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith (1776). Smith is often caricatured as a laissez-faire zealot. He wasn't. The Wealth of Nations ...

This policy orientation was christened ‘liberal’ by Scotsmen Adam Smith, William Robertson and others. In 1776, Smith’s ‘The Wealth of Nations’ advanced the liberty principle as a policy maxim. That ...