They are a bad idea.” Dr Madsen Pirie, president of the Adam Smith Institute, neatly summed up the views of the Kirkcaldy-born ‘Father of Economics’ on tariffs in an article following Donald ...
David Ricardo, a notable economist of the Smithian tradition, had reasoned in the Labour Theory of Value that the value of a ...
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Your report about Labour and Conservative votes collapsing in Scotland is an inevitable result of them having done virtually nothing in the way ...
As Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, noted, “the greatest improvements in the circumstances of mankind have been brought about by the labour of a few”. This insight reminds us that ...
According to Elon Musk, USAID, America’s chief foreign aid agency, “deserves to die.”  Why? Because it is “a viper’s nest of ...
Professor of Economics and author of 'How to Think Like an Economist', who has just released in Spanish by La Esfera de los Libros. Robbie Mochrie is a Professor of Economics at Heriot-Watt University ...
The author is an economic columnist and CEO of Geuljaengi.Inc. Adam Smith, the founding father of economics, mentioned the “invisible hand” only once in “The Wealth of Nations” (1776).
In the first English translation in half a century, Paul Reitter and Paul North distill the essence of the Marxist ...