Adam Quote by Allen W. Wood

Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable effects on…

— Allen W. Wood

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their…

— George Stigler

But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral…

— Paul Ormerod

Adam Smith was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his…

— Robert Heilbroner

“Adam Smith FRSE (baptised June 5, 1723 O.S. / June 16 N.S. – July 17, 1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneering…

— Adam Smith

There is a lot in Adam Smith that reflects the insights of Rousseau and anticipates those of Marx.

— Allen W. Wood

During the two centuries since the publication of 'The Wealth of Nations,' the main activity of economists, it seems to me, has been to…

— Ronald Coase

. . I think the Adam Smith role was played in this cycle i.e. the late twentieth century collapse of socialism in which the…

— Milton Friedman

The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take…

— Milton Friedman

“In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith argued that self-interest can solve this problem. Given a free economy and an impartial rule of law,…

— Roger Scruton

In my book, 'The Big Three in Economics,' I found that the press has frequently and prematurely written the obituary of Adam Smith and…

— Mark Skousen