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Type/Date	Title	Author	Snippet
Guide	Vernon Smith on Adam Smith and the Human Enterprise		Listen to the EconTalk podcast Vernon Smith on Adam Smith and the Human Enterprise and consider these questions.
EconTalk-extra 2015-04-07	Continuing Education... Vernon Smith and James Otteson on Adam Smith	Amy Willis	What evidence can you find from (Adam) Smith to support the answer of either Otteson or (Vernon) Smith? (Remember ...
EconTalk-extra 2014-11-19	Continuing Conversation... Vernon Smith on Adam Smith and the Human Enterprise	Amy Willis	Nobel laureate Vernon Smith joins EconTalk host Russ Roberts this week on EconTalk to discuss Adam Smith's ...
EconLog 2018-07-02	Jesse Norman on Adam Smith and a letter to the FT	Alberto Mingardi	One of them is Jesse Norman, who has just published a new biography of Adam Smith. I haven't read the book yet ...
EconLog 2016-04-30	The Real Adam Smith	Emily Skarbek	I have just come across a nice two part documentary on Adam Smith available at Free to Choose TV. The videos give ...
Article 2019-04-01	Who Was Adam Smith?	Maria Pia Paganelli	Born in Scotland in 1723, where he lived most of his life and where he also died in 1790, Adam Smith is a mythical ...
EconTalk 2015-04-06	Vernon Smith and James Otteson on Adam Smith	Vernon Smith James Otteson	Vernon Smith and James Otteson talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Adam Smith in front of a live audience at ...
Book Chapter 1776	An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Preface	Adam Smith	Bonar's Catalogue of the Library of Adam Smith in 1894, and of Adam Smith's Lectures in 1896. The Catalogue tells us ...
Article 2019-12-02	Hume, Smith… and Darwin	Pedro Schwartz	This deceptively anecdotal story of how David Hume and Adam Smith became the fastest of friends over the years ...
EconLog 2018-10-26	Adam Smith Anti-Imperialist	David Henderson	Henderson, "Adam Smith's Economic Case Against Imperialism," published by Liberty Fund on Adam Smith Works.
Guide	Russ Roberts and Mike Munger on How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life		Listen to the EconTalk podcast Russ Roberts and Mike Munger on How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life and ...
Article 2019-09-02	Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century.	Maria Pia Paganelli	It can be read as a modernization of Adam Smith, the 18th century father of economics and professor of Moral ...
Biography	Adam Smith		With The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith installed himself as the leading expositor of economic thought. Currents of ...
EconLog 2018-10-24	Jesse Norman on Adam Smith	Alberto Mingardi	A few months ago I sent a letter to the Financial Times on the excerpt of Jesse Norman's book on Adam Smith that they ...
Article 2004-10-04	Economics and the Ordinary Person: Re-reading Adam Smith	Sam Fleischacker	George Stigler, "Smith's Travels on the Ship of State," in Essays on Adam Smith, eds. Andrew Skinner and Thomas ...
EconLog 2010-05-02	Amartya Sen vs. Dan Klein on Adam Smith	David Henderson	Last week the New York Times blog had a post referencing an article on Adam Smith by Amartya Sen. Those of Sen's ...
EconTalk-extra 2017-11-10	The Infidel or the Professor?	Amy Willis	Longtime EconTalk listeners have had much occasion to consider the influence of Adam Smith. In this week's episode, ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 1	John Rae	ADAM SMITH was born at Kirkcaldy, in the county of Fife, Scotland, on the 5th of June 1723. He was the son of Adam ...
EconTalk-extra 2015-03-10	Will the Real Adam Smith Please Stand Up?	Lauren Landsburg	... Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith of Chapman University, discussing the relevance of Adam Smith for the 21st century.
EconLog 2014-03-12	Adam Smith Bio Corrected	David Henderson	It is a mistake to say that Adam Smith unambiguously favored retaliatory tariffs. Russ Roberts called my attention to a ...
Guide	Division of Labor and Specialization		Introduction. Definitions and Basics. Adam Smith, biography from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. Smith saw ...
EconLog 2014-06-05	Happy birthday, Adam Smith	Alberto Mingardi	Some 291 years ago today, Adam Smith was born. Richard Ebeling has an insightful article that beautifully introduces to ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 32	John Rae	"In many respects," says Lord Buchan, "Adam Smith was a chaste disciple of Epicurus as that philosopher is properly ...
EconLog 2016-04-15	Adam Smith on Sincerity and Political Rhetoric	Emily Skarbek	Adam Smith argues that political leaders rely on decorum to shape their rhetorical appeals, and that voters look for the ...
EconTalk-extra 2014-10-14	Continuing Conversation... Russ Roberts and Mike Munger on How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life	Amy Willis	The subject was Roberts's new book, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life. Use the prompts below as a classroom ...
Guide	Division of Labor and Specialization		Adam Smith, biography from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. The main cause of prosperity, argued Smith, was ...
Book Chapter 1982	"The Tradition of Spontaneous Order" The Tradition of Spontaneous Order, Bibliography	Norman Barry	The Science of a Legislator: The National Jurisprudence of David Hume and Adam Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge ...
Book Chapter 1884	Capital and Interest: A Critical History of Economical Theory Book I,Ch.IV	Eugen v. Böhm-Bawerk	Adam Smith has not overlooked the problem of interest; neither has he worked it out. He deals with it as a great thinker ...
Book Chapter 1979	Can Capitalism Survive? Part III, Chapter 1, Adam Smith, 1776-1976	Benjamin A. Rogge	Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776. "We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are created equal, that ...
EconLog 2010-03-08	Sumner Gets Blockian	Bryan Caplan	Mark Thoma recently linked to a Gavin Kennedy post that argued Adam Smith did not favor laissez-faire. I don't agree.
EconLog 2016-07-03	Weekend Grab Bag	Amy Willis	Of related interest is this EconTalk episode on Adam Smith with Jim Otteson and Vernon Smith, filmed before alive ...
EconTalk 2014-11-17	Vernon Smith on Adam Smith and the Human Enterprise	Vernon Smith	Russ: Our topic for today is human motivation and behavior, as seen through the eyes of Adam Smith--particularly his ...
EconTalk 2017-11-06	Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor	Dennis Rasmussen	How did the friendship between David Hume and Adam Smith influence their ideas? Why do their ideas still matter ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 20	John Rae	Mickle and his little group of admirers declared it was all due to an ill word from the Duke's great mentor, Adam Smith, ...
Encyclopedia	Division of Labor	Michael Munger	The production increase has several causes. According to Adam Smith, these include increased dexterity from learning, ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 15	John Rae	In the titles, both of the Theory and Dissertation, call me simply Adam Smith without any addition either before or behind.
EconTalk 2011-06-27	Otteson on Adam Smith	James Otteson	James Otteson of Yeshiva University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Adam Smith. The conversation ...
EconLog 2014-07-10	Adam Smith on Stationary Bandits vs Roving Bandits	David Henderson	Or, you could call this post "Adam Smith on the Tragedy of the Commons" I'm reading a section of Adam Smith's The ...
EconLog 2015-03-28	Russ Roberts on Adam Smith's Rules for Living	David Henderson	This is from "Adam Smith's Guide to Living," my review of Russ Roberts's latest book, How Adam Smith Can Change ...
EconTalk 2009-04-15	Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 2--A Discussion of Part I	Daniel Klein	This is the second podcast in the EconTalk Book Club discussion of The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith.
EconTalk 2008-03-03	Vernon Smith on Rationality in Economics	Vernon Smith	Adam Smith, preferences are expressed in demand and costs in supply, way of simplifying reality to explain competitive ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 18	John Rae	Adam Smith has enriched the public! An extensive science in a single book, and the most profound ideas expressed in ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 30	John Rae	Piozzi, and finished the day by supping with Adam Smith. He had called on Smith "between sermons," as they say in ...
Book Chapter 1885	Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. II. The Process of Circulation of Capital Part III, Chapter 19	Karl Marx	The retrogression of Adam Smith *37 in the analysis of the process of reproduction is so much more remarkable, as he ...
EconLog 2019-11-22	Isn’t It Odd? The Project on Smith, Hume, Liberalism and Esotericism	Dan Klein	Isn't it odd that, in recounting a story about Antimachus discoursing before an audience including Plato, Adam Smith ...
EconTalk-extra 2014-11-21	Smith Lessons: What I've learned from Adam and Vernon	Russ Roberts	Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments seems to take a different approach. He argues that material well-being ...
EconLog 2019-09-09	Donald Trump versus Adam Smith	David Henderson	According to the third quote, by 18th-century economist Adam Smith, the idea of a balance of trade is absurd.
EconLog 2017-04-23	Adam Smith's pins	Alberto Mingardi	Virginia Postrel has a great article on Reason on what pins were, at the time Adam Smith picked the pin factory example ...
EconLog 2018-09-11	McCloskey on Norman	Alberto Mingardi	In July I commented on a number of articles previewing Jesse Norman's book on Adam Smith: Father of Economics ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 10	John Rae	The first time I met him was one evening at Strahan's, when he had just had an unlucky altercation with Adam Smith, ...
EconTalk 2009-04-06	Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 1--An Overview	Daniel Klein	Caricature of Adam Smith is focus on greed and self-interest. By contrast, TMS focuses on a richer set of motivations: ...
Book Chapter 1776	An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Editor's Introduction	Adam Smith	The title-page describes the author as 'Adam Smith, LL.D. and FRS Formerly Professor of Moral Philosophy in the ...
Book Chapter 1979	Can Capitalism Survive? Part III, Introduction	Benjamin A. Rogge	In this part on the nature of economics, pride of place goes naturally to the paper on Adam Smith, the Father of ...
EconLog 2018-04-11	Adam Smith on the Bipartisan Support for Attacking Syria	David Henderson	From Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, I.III.20 And: Foreign war and civil faction are the two situations ...
Book Chapter 1841	The National System of Political Economy Book III, Chapter 31	Friedrich List	Adam Smith fell into these fundamental errors in exactly the same way as the physiocrats had done before him, namely, ...
Book Chapter 1885	Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. II. The Process of Circulation of Capital Part II, Chapter 10	Karl Marx	The only progress made by Adam Smith is the generalization of the categories. He no longer applies them to one ...
EconTalk 2010-11-22	Phillipson on Adam Smith	Nicholas Phillipson	Nicholas Phillipson, author of Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the life of ...
EconLog 2018-11-08	Against Veneration	Bryan Caplan	I have close friends who venerate Adam Smith, John Rawls, Friedrich Hayek, James Buchanan, John Maynard Keynes, ...
Guide 2018-02-08	Audio, Streaming Audio, and Video Files		"Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations" (DVD) Video . Narrated by Benjamin A. Rogge of Wabash College.
Book Chapter 1841	The National System of Political Economy Introductory Essay, by J. Shield Nicholson	Friedrich List	Or, again, take this passage on retaliation: 'Thus it is Adam Smith who wants to introduce the principle of retaliation into ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 29	John Rae	Adam Smith, who has very ably written on the Wealth of Nations, says: 'No plan has promised to effect a change of ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 22	John Rae	ADAM SMITH. Smith had most probably discussed the merits of Lord Kames's objections with his lordship already, ...
EconTalk-extra 2014-12-10	Continuing Conversation... James Otteson on the End of Socialism	Amy Willis	... Otteson about socialism and capitalism, touching on camping, GA Cohen, Adam Smith, and education along the way.
EconLog 2018-02-09	RIP Nick Phillipson	Alberto Mingardi	He wrote a brilliant book on David Hume (The Philosopher as Historian) and a masterpiece biography of Adam Smith, ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 27	John Rae	Adam Smith. They brought him," he adds, "to my house the day after he arrived." Lord Maitland was the eldest son of the ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 16	John Rae	ADAM SMITH. *49. The Duke of Buccleugh had never been at Dalkeith since his infancy—if indeed he had been even ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 13	John Rae	CHAPTER XIII GENEVA. IN the end of August Smith and his pupils left Toulouse and made what Stewart calls an ...
Biography	David Hume		... international trade published in Political Discourses strongly influenced his friend and fellow countryman adam smith.
EconTalk 2006-07-10	An Interview with Gary Becker	Gary Becker	"Human Capital," article by Gary Becker in the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. Adam Smith on mediocre teaching ...
EconLog 2008-04-01	Economics Appears Late	Arnold Kling	In economics, perhaps Adam Smith was wrong in claiming a universal propensity to truck and barter. A universal ...
EconLog 2015-02-11	The Iron Law of You	David Henderson	How Russ Roberts Can Change Your Life I recently sent off my review of Russ Roberts' book How Adam Smith Can ...
EconLog 2018-05-07	Murphy on National Defense as a Justification for Tariffs	David Henderson	Even Adam Smith recognized national security as a possible justification for tariffs on strategically important ...
Article 2020-03-02	Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, and the Power of Stories	Caroline Breashears	From Adam Smith to Ayn Rand, advocates of liberty have used stories to convey their theories of economics and ...
EconLog 2018-01-03	The Best of Econlib: 2017 (cont.)	Amy Willis	Adam Smith coined the term "mercantile system" to describe the system of political economy that sought to enrich the ...
Article 2007-03-05	The Smith-Hayek Economist: From Character to Identity	Daniel B. Klein	In Britain, too, most leading figures of political economy fit Bastiat's description and venerated Adam Smith. The term ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 25	John Rae	He addressed his communication to the society through Adam Smith, who must therefore be assumed to have had ...
Book Chapter 1892	Public Finance Bk.III,Ch.VII	Charles F. Bastable	Very different is the position occupied by Adam Smith. The maxims inseparably associated with his name *128 were in ...
Book Chapter 1817	On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation Ch.24, Adam Smith concerning the Rent of Land	David Ricardo	"Such parts only of the produce of land," says Adam Smith, "can commonly be brought to market, of which the ordinary ...
EconLog 2010-12-17	My Review of Hubbard and Navarro	David Henderson	As international-trade economists have understood since Adam Smith, it's better to buy cheaply from people in another ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 4	John Rae	Adam Smith; and which it is hoped will be given by him to the public." *21 Now many of Smith's friends considered this ...
Biography	Jacob Viner		Viner also wrote a famous 145-page introduction to an edition of John Rae's Life of Adam Smith. Viner was an ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 2	John Rae	If the Mr. Smith of this letter is Adam Smith, then he must have been away from Glasgow at that time, for Hutcheson was ...
EconTalk 2008-02-04	Dan Klein on Coordination and Cooperation	Daniel Klein	Example from Adam Smith, rough woolen coat is the product of the work of a multitude of people. Leonard Read's "I ...
Book Chapter 1817	On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation Ch.14, Taxes on Houses	David Ricardo	"The rent of a house," says Adam Smith, "may be distinguished into two parts, of which the one may very properly be ...
EconTalk 2009-05-27	Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 6--A Discussion of Parts VI and VII, and Summary	Daniel Klein	... and concluding podcast in the EconTalk Book Club discussion of The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith.
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 11	John Rae	ADAM SMITH. Shortly after the date of this letter, Smith, who was now probably beginning to see the approach of the ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 5	John Rae	ADAM SMITH. *27. Smith would begin work at Glasgow on the 10th of October, and before the middle of November he ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 14	John Rae	ADAM SMITH. COMPIE, 26th August 1766. Wednesday, 5 o'clock afternoon. *26. Could there be a more pleasing ...
Guide	Pre-1800 Economic Thought, Including Mercantilism		Hume's renowned essays deeply influenced Adam Smith, and cover topics both philosophical and economic (the latter ...
Book Chapter 1888	The Positive Theory of Capital Book I,Ch.III	Eugen v. Böhm-Bawerk	It was no less a man than Adam Smith who changed and rectified Turgot's definition. The "saved" stocks, he said, must ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 3	John Rae	Rogers's edition of the Wealth of Nations, I. vii. 11. Laing MSS., Edinburgh University. 12. Stewart's Life of Adam Smith, ...
Book Chapter 1841	The National System of Political Economy Book III, Chapter 32	Friedrich List	... the materials which Adam Smith had gathered together after an irregular fashion. In that he has perfectly succeeded, ...
EconTalk-extra 2020-01-30	What's Money Got to Do With It?	Amy Willis	(Think of the examples Roberts offered such as Adam Smith's position at the Customs Commission, Michael Jordan's ...
Book Chapter 1982	"Readers' Forum, Comments on 'The Tradition of Spontaneous Order' by Norman Barry" Comments by James M. Buchanan	James M. Buchanan David Gordon Israel Kirzner	See, on this, Jacob Viner's classic 'Adam Smith and Laissez-Faire,' and, for some brief discussion of the interpretation ...
Book Chapter 1982	"Readers' Forum, Comments on 'The Tradition of Spontaneous Order' by Norman Barry" Comments by Jeremy Shearmur	James M. Buchanan David Gordon Israel Kirzner	Barry quoted Adam Smith on the fatal dissolution that awaits every state and constitution whatever,'[12] but he made no ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Preface	John Rae	THE fullest account we possess of the life of Adam Smith is still the memoir which Dugald Stewart read to the Royal ...
EconLog 2018-12-04	David Warsh on Adam Smith	David Henderson	I'm reading and enjoying David Warsh's Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations. I hadn't read it when it came out, but I ...
EconLog 2019-12-23	MORE Econlib Holiday Reading	Amy Willis	(Yale University Press): This one is a must-read for those of us working on the Adam Smith Works website, though I ...
Guide	War, Colonialism, and Imperialism		Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Smith, Adam, An Inquiry into the Nature ...
Book Chapter 1895	Life of Adam Smith Chapter 21	John Rae	Adam Smith, Cullen, Black, Mr. M'Gowan, etc., belong to it, and I am also a member of it. Thus I spend once a week in a ...