Accidents Quote by John Maynard Keynes

“A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most…

— Bruce Watson

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

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

“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

“Needless to say, this idea that the origin of prosperity is hard work and frugality was exhaustively formulated by Adam Smith in The Wealth…

— Axel Kaiser

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

“But no moral philosopher, from Aristotle to Aquinas, to John Locke and Adam Smith, divorced economics from a set of moral ends or held…

— Daniel Bell

“There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation;…

— Henry Hazlitt

“Smith argued that it was possible for all nations to increase their wealth by adopting policies that promote specialization and the division of labor.”

— Edd S. Noell

“Since the Enlightenment, in the great tension between rationalism (how we would like things to be so they make sense to us) and empiricism…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb