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

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

John Mauldin celebrates American freedom.

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.

The American Revolution went hand-in-hand with an economic revolution that transformed human political and social, as well as commercial life, and continues to unfold.

The question isn’t whether we can afford to raise utility rates. The question is whether we can afford not to.

Plato identified inequality as a central problem of politics. Inequality, this ancient Greek philosopher warned, undermines ...

When politicians intervene in the economy, they often do it in the name of mitigating “greed” or “profiteering.” While they ...

Protectionist trade policies, tariffs, encouraging domestic production and discouraging imports, retaliatory policies ...

Missing in debates about free trade and tariffs is discussion both about the movement of people between countries, and the challenge of not having a credible unit of account to facilitate trade.

THIS week, the UK government commemorates the first anniversary of its landslide election victory. Despite its big ...

Sweden got their European Championship campaign off to a winning start as midfielder Filippa Angeldahl struck the only goal ...