Adam Quote by Michael Lind

Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Adam Smith's uncritically enthusiastic modern disciples portray his invisible hand theory as saying that market forces reliably harness selfish individuals to serve the common…

— Robert H. Frank

I am a believer in Adam Smith, who says that if you look at something that really contributes value to society, and you can…

— David Cheriton

We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous.

— Noam Chomsky

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the Physiocrats in…

— Francois Quesnay

“They failed to appreciate how the network would funnel the energies of the people into a centrally administered, tightly monitored information system organized to…

— Nicholas Carr

“In America, too, the reality behind the words of the Declaration of Independence (issued in the same year as Adam Smith’s capitalist manifesto, The…

— Howard Zinn

“The American Works Progress (later Projects) Administration, founded in 1935 to provide jobs for “employable workers” during the Great Depression, established the Mathematical Tables…

— Jack Lynch

Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral…

— Anonymous

Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?' Then, yeah,…

— Niall Ferguson

“It was in the eighteenth century that England became what (Adam) Smith called "a nation of shopkeepers"… (p. 58)”

— Jerry Z. Muller