The company founder created a global transportation giant. He died Saturday at age 80.

As Adam Smith, the father of economics, put it, scalpers are trying to “reap where they never sowed”—though Smith probably didn’t foresee a future where the invisible hand of the market ...

Fred Smith, the FedEx Corp. founder who revolutionized the express delivery industry, has died, the company said. He was the ...

FedEx founder Fred Smith, whose express shipping company set the standard for absolutely, positively overnight delivery, has ...

Ivan Velez is an undergraduate economics major from Mexico who shares here a firsthand account of his experience with FIU’s Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom, a non-partisan think tank. Growing ...

But secondly, and more importantly, because Trump's tariffs were "blessed" in 1776 by the godfather of free trade economics, none other than Adam Smith. According to Smith, "There seem, however, to be ...

Virgil C. Smith, who broke racial barriers both as a Michigan lawmaker and judge, has died at age 77.

Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, famously described what would be one of the central drivers of economic progress for centuries to come: the division of labor. Thomas W. Malone ...

FedEx founder Fred Smith, whose express shipping company set the standard for absolutely, positively overnight delivery, has ...

Smith was born on Aug. 11, 1944, to Frederick Smith and Sally Wallace Smith in Marks, Mississippi. He was raised by his mother in Memphis after his father, founder and chairman of one of the ...