Essays on Adam Smith

Both Adam Smith and Karl Marx are considered two of the top twenty most influential people in the world for the millennium. They both are respected in their views for creating a perfect society where everyone is happy. Adam Smith, a brilliant Scottish political economist...

Adam Smith was a key figure during the 18th and early 19th centuries Scottish enlightenment. He was an economist who pioneered the initial foundations of a classical political economy, a moral philosopher, as well as an esteemed author who produced two renowned works in The...

David Hume, who wrote Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals in 1751, and Adam Smith, who authored The Wealth of Nations in 1776, both spoke of a particular human emotion or characteristic called sympathy that differs greatly in definition from the colloquial meaning attributed to...

Adam Smith: A Wealth of Wisdom Moral philosopher and economist Adam Smith authored influential theories of classical economics, yet some of his explanations are foreshadowed by earlier writers, such as Thomas Mun and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot. In his prominent work, An Inquiry into the...

Adam Smith’s work The Wealth of Nations has given him an association with capitalism and the invisible hand that guides individuals in economic activities. This invisible hand is both local in nature for the benefit of the individual and the community as a whole. He...

Since the beginning of time, mankind has always employed a system of trade among each other, in order to acquire materials, services, or goods. Many systems of trade exist today, aging from the historic barter system, in which goods and/or services are directly exchange for...

Adam Smith, whose Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, was the father of modern economics and capitalism. He argued, that the free operation of market forces was the best recipe for a flourishing and growing economy. If everyone is as free as possible to...

In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith outlines the principle that self-interested market participants unknowingly maximize the welfare of society as a whole. This “Invisible hand” idea originated in 1776 and has been the basis for how our economy functions today. When a firm provides...

Introduction While Adam Smith died 200 years ago, it is clear his work has had more impact than any other leader in economic history on modern economic policy. While Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes’s prescription did not withstand the time test, Smith’s ideas are...

Adam Smith is also known as one of the fathers of economics. He is most known for his profound ideas and theories on capitalism presented in his book the Wealth of Nations. In the Wealth of Nations, the ideal capitalist government and society relies on...

Adam Smith is known as the “Father of Capitalism” on the other hand his peer, Karl Marx, is known as the “Father of Communism.” The thoughts of these two men differentiate as a general rule; however there is some similitude in the thinking behind a...

The times during which Adam Smith lived and published his remarkable works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS) and The Wealth of Nations (WN), were very divided on philosophical, political and economic grounds. Interestingly, the sixth and last edition of TMS was published in 1790,...