If Adam Smith were alive today, he would be appalled by the never-ending federal deficits and out-of-control national debt. ... Adam Smith, considered the father of economics, turns 300.

Bookshelf ‘Adam Smith: Father of Economics’ Review: Obvious, Simple and Wise A Tory MP’s account of his idol is wise about how markets work but wrong about when government should get ...

Adam Smith: Father of Economics Jesse Norman. Basic, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-465-06197-6. ... He argues convincingly that Smith’s greatest insight was his notion of mutual sympathy, ...

MarketWatch.com What would Adam Smith think of today’s economic pundits? This new play provides a clue The father of economics is an invisible stagehand in Bruce Norris’s play ‘The Low Road’ ...

Adam Smith’s model of free trade, low taxes, deregulation, patent law and sound money (supply-side economics) led to the Industrial Revolution and a 100-fold increase in our standard of living.

Adam Smith may fairly claim to be the father, not of economics generally—that would be absurd—but of what in modern times has been called, with opprobrious intention, "bourgeois economics ...