Book

Adam Smith’s America

How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism

Glory M. Liu

2022

Princeton University Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Book Review

The Localist

Why did Chicago become the headquarters of free market fundamentalism? Adam Smith offers a clue.

by Jonathan Levy via Boston Review on June 28, 2023
Book Review

The Betrayal of Adam Smith

How conservatives made him their icon and distorted his ideas.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on February 27, 2023
Q&A

The Contradictions of Adam Smith

Smith's influence on American politics, and the misunderstanding at the heart of our idea of the "champion of capitalism."

by Glory M. Liu, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via The Nation on December 14, 2022
Book Review

Why the Philosophers Libertarians Love Always Come Out Worse for Wear

Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek have been through the wringer.

by Rebecca Brenner Graham via Slate on December 5, 2022

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