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Just four months before The Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776, Adam Smith published The Wealth ...
Social trust is crucial for capitalism and vibrant democracies. And when those systems weaken, as they are now, it’s calling ...
The Fourth of July holiday celebrates community, national and also local. Parades featuring people in uniform — scouts, firefighters and police as well as our military — traditionally are a ...
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.
Scottish philosopher and political economist Adam Smith published, ‘An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of ...
Plato identified inequality as a central problem of politics. Inequality, this ancient Greek philosopher warned, undermines ...
The question isn’t whether we can afford to raise utility rates. The question is whether we can afford not to.
I pledge allegiance to the flag,” the salute begins, words we learned by heart before we left kindergarten. “With liberty and justice for all,” it ends, a hope and a ...
Protectionist trade policies, tariffs, encouraging domestic production and discouraging imports, retaliatory policies ...
Did Adam Smith—celebrated hero of free trade—make a big exception for reasons of national defense? Would he support the Jones ...
Cai, W. (2025) The Philosophical Basis for the Evolution of the Doctrine of Assumption of Risk in Anglo-American Law: A ...
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.