Adam Quote by Milton Friedman

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

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

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

“It was in the wake of these erosions of economic controls that intellectual challenges were then made to the role of government in the…

— Thomas Sowell

“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 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

Never was it [Capitalism] imposed on life as a system, or at all. It grew out of life, not all at once but gradually,…

— Garet Garrett

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

If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped…

— Kenneth Minogue

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

— Allen W. Wood

F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.

— Peter L. Berger