Book

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

1776

W. Strahan and T. Cadell

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

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Axe chopping down columns

The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism

The free market used to be touted as the cure for all our problems; now it’s taken to be the cause of them.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on July 17, 2023

Statue of Liberty's torch.

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

The image displays two duplicate portraits of Adam Smith. One is upside down.

The Mysteries of Adam Smith

How to understand Adam Smith’s politics.

by Glory M. Liu via The Nation on September 3, 2022

Protester in a march, holding a sign that reads "Bank on the future."

The Way We Talk About Climate Change Is Wrong

The language of “sacrifice” reveals we’re stuck in a colonial mindset.

by Priya Satia via Foreign Policy on March 11, 2022

How the Chicago School Changed the Meaning of Adam Smith’s ‘Invisible Hand’

Smith wasn’t warning about government intervention in the market; he was warning about government capture.

by Glory M. Liu via Washington Post on April 22, 2019

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