“A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even… — Bruce Watson Copy Share Image
“Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations was in large part a critique of imperialism. We often associate opposition to imperialism with Marxism and… — Jason Brennan Copy Share Image
“Instead, contracts were awarded to American consultancies like Bearing Point, or Adam Smith from the UK, to bring in their own people… — Christina Lamb Copy Share Image
Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?'… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S.… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The American Works Progress (later Projects) Administration, founded in 1935 to provide jobs for “employable workers” during the Great Depression, established the… — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
“In America, too, the reality behind the words of the Declaration of Independence (issued in the same year as Adam Smith’s capitalist… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“They failed to appreciate how the network would funnel the energies of the people into a centrally administered, tightly monitored information system… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the… — Francois Quesnay Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am a believer in Adam Smith, who says that if you look at something that really contributes value to society, and… — David Cheriton Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's uncritically enthusiastic modern disciples portray his invisible hand theory as saying that market forces reliably harness selfish individuals to serve… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
“In reality high profits tend much more to raise the price of (a piece of) work than high wages. (quoting Adam Smith… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
“Adam Smith expanded on this notion by saying that a person pursing his own selfish interests may be “led by an invisible… — Sean Masaki Flynn Copy Share Image
It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“It was in the wake of these erosions of economic controls that intellectual challenges were then made to the role of government… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith… — Sam Wyly Copy Share Image
“I find it ironic that liberals generally embrace Darwin and reject “intelligent design” as the explanation for design and adaptation in the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“(...) his (Adam Smith's) theory of sympathy rejected self-love as the basic motive for behaviour. He also defined virtue as consisting of… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“Back in Ancient Greece when Xenophon first posed the economic question, ‘How should a household best manage its resources?’ he was literally… — Kate Raworth Copy Share Image
