Adam Quote by George Stigler

Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The Theory of…

— Ted Malloch

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 was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.

— Allen W. Wood

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 actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is the underlying…

— David Graeber

“As Adam Smith argued more than two centuries ago, when individuals freely pursue their own self-interests—presumably, even their most trivial desires—the aggregate effect is…

— Paul Roberts

“ An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , which Smith published in 1776, is the most important book…

— Jerry Z. Muller

“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

Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose in England,…

— Noam Chomsky

“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor…

— David Cay Johnston

“Yet economics purports to be strangely exempt from this fact of life. From Adam Smith's day to our own, the chief concern of the…

— George Gilder

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