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Adam Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Adam Smith, FRSE (baptised June 5, 1723 – July 17, 1790) was a Scottish political economist and moral philosopher. His Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was one of the earliest attempts to study the historical development of industry and commerce in Europe. That work helped to create the modern academic discipline of economics and provided one of the best-known intellectual rationales for free trade, capitalism and libertarianism. ..." |
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| 5 Jun 1723, (baptized), in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland |
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| 17 Jul 1790, in Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Biography |
| Adam Smith Institute |
| Biography of Adam Smith (1723-90), The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics |
| Laissez Faire Books |
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Adam Smith - Libertarian
Advocates for Self-Government |
| Bibliography |
| Bibliography of Adam Smith and related works - Adam Smith Institute |
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A Modest Man Named Smith, by Leo Rosten, People I Have Loved, Known or Admired, 1970
"Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776 - not as a textbook, but as a polemical cannon aimed at governments that were subsidizing and protecting their merchants, their farmers, their manufacturers, against "unfair" competition, at home or from imports. Smith set out to demolish the mercantilist theory from which those politics flowed." |
| Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand, by Edmund A. Opitz, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Jun 1976 |
Murray Rothbard Confronts Adam Smith [PDF], by Paul B. Trescott, The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 1998
Related Topic: Murray N. Rothbard |
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Murray Rothbard's Adam Smith [PDF], by Spencer J. Pack, The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 1998
Related Topic: Murray N. Rothbard |
Smiths Classic Work Receives Universal Acclaim, by Mark Skousen, The Making of Modern Economics
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| The Ambitious, Accommodative Adam Smith, by Salim Rashid, The Independent Review, 1997 |
The Writings of Adam Smith, by Julio H. Cole, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Feb 1990
"Smith took economics forever beyond the narrow mercantilistic framework which denied the gains from trade between nations, and made of it a study of the spontaneous and largely unintended social order which arises from free exchanges between individuals, exchanges which produce benefits for all parties involved, whether domestic or foreign." |
Classical Liberalism in Argentina: A Lesson for the World, by Jacob G. Hornberger, Freedom Daily, Jul 1994
Related Topics: Argentina, Juan Bautista Alberdi
"... Argentina from 1850 to 1930 serves as a real beacon to all who wish to crack the never-ending cycle of poverty and misery: 'To all who wish wealth and prosperity, remove the heavy hand of the state from your pockets and your economic activities.'" |
Full Context [PDF], by Sheldon Richman, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Apr 2006
Related Topics: The Free Market
Explains why it is essential to be aware that the existing corporatist economy does not equate to the free market
"In The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith famously wrote, 'People of the same trade seldom meet ... but the conversation ends ... in some contrivance to raise prices.' It may seem strange that history's best-known advocate of the free market would cast such aspersions on business people. ... Smith's book was a brief against mercantilism, the nationalistic system of business privilege." |
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Of the Rent of Land, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776
Related Topic: Land
Book One, Chapter XI |
Of the Wages of Labour, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776
Related Topic: Wages
Book One, Chapter VIII |
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Interview with Adam Smith [via Edwin West], The Region, Jun 1994
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Banking and Policy Issues Magazine |
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Mar 1776
Related Topic: Economics
Electronic text available at The Library of Economics and Liberty. Includes 1904 Editor's Introduction by Edwin Cannan. |
- ISBN 0786100842: Audio cassette, Blackstone Audiobooks, 1997
- ISBN 0679424733: Hardcover, Modern Library, 1994
- ISBN 0895263351: Hardcover, Regnery Publishing, 1999
- ISBN 0192835467: Paperback, Oxford University Press, 1998
- ISBN 0226763749: Paperback, University Of Chicago Press, 1977
- ISBN 0679783369: Paperback, Modern Library, 2000
- ISBN 0865970084: Paperback, Liberty Fund, 2 volumes, 1982
- ISBN 0879757051: Paperback, Prometheus Books, 1991
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759
Related Topic: Ethics
Electronic text available at The Library of Economics and Liberty |
- ISBN 0521591503: Hardcover, Cambridge University Press, 2002
- ISBN 0895263637: Hardcover, Regnery Publishing, 1999
- ISBN 0521598478: Paperback, Cambridge University Press, 2002
- ISBN 0865970122: Paperback, Liberty Fund, 1982
- ISBN 1419185071: Paperback, Kessinger Publishing, 2004
- ISBN 1573928003: Paperback, Prometheus Books, 2000
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