Reviewing Prof. Glory Liu’s “Adam Smith’s America” (Books, Dec. 17), Barton Swaim shares his judgment that Smith’s “Theory of Moral Sentiments” “isn’t very good,” adding: “It’s mostly unreadable, to ...

On the occasion of his 300th birthday, Adam Smith—the Scottish Enlightenment luminary and so-called father of capitalism—was not available for comment, despite attempts to contact him via Ouija board ...

Darwin’s colleague and champion, Thomas Henry Huxley, was not one to mince words. In his 1888 essay The struggle for existence: a programme, Huxley described nature as a bloodbath: “From the point of ...

Adam Smith’s seminal contributions continue to illuminate the interconnected realms of economic behaviour and moral philosophy. His works, notably The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral ...

Adam Smith is not who you think he is. Long hailed as the founder of modern economics and the father of capitalism, the 18th-century Scottish thinker was not only an economist and the author of The ...

ZEIT: Do you see a solution to this problem? Smith: I do, actually, although they are politically difficult. From both my economic analysis and moral philosophy, there are actually clear solutions, ...