Messrs. Pooley and Gilder remind us that the book’s themes remain fresh.

As the U.S. and China gear up for trade discussions this weekend, the White House is touting a framework of a deal with the ...

which will slow the economy and hiring." The simple fact is, the board continued, "Mr. Trump thinks he can bully everyone into submission, but he can’t bully Adam Smith, who deals in reality.

Chew traces the ur-moment of this revival of America’s corporate and stock market fortunes, and the invention of “modern corporate finance”, to a classroom at Carnegie-Mellon university in 1957 when ...

You could call them the three pillars of the American Idea. These three pillars are the direct gifts to America of three great thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment: Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, ...

“when Adam Smith spoke sagely of the power of the invisible hand, he did not envisage an economic slap in the face from the unruly introduction of exorbitant tariffs. America's animal spirits do ...

which in various versions dates at least to Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of Nations” (1776), often taken to be the beginning of modern economics. The labor theory of value figured prominently in ...

Unalienable rights and self-evident truths are the two core ideas of the American founding. Expand the number of core ideas ...