Did Adam Smith—celebrated hero of free trade—make a big exception for reasons of national defense? Would he support the Jones ...

Just four months before The Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776, Adam Smith published The Wealth ...

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

Government. The Big G. We like to imagine the free market and the invisible hand as being independent from political influence. But Nobel laureate, Simon Johnson, says that influence has been there ...

June 5th is Keynes' 142nd birthday and June 16, 1723, is the day Adam Smith was born. Everyone knows "Wealth of Nations" (1776) and "Theory of Moral Sentiments." ...

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 ...

Over the next half-century, Smith, a Marine Corps veteran, oversaw the growth of a company that became something of an economic bellwether because so ... flying packages to 25 U.S. cities. Smith’s ...

The man largely credited with inventing marketplace capitalism, Adam Smith, lived at home with his mother. While he wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776, she cooked and cleaned for him.

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