Adam Quote by Paul Ormerod

There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they do the…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“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

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

The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of…

— John Jay Chapman

“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

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

“Survival of the fittest" in the commonly used animal sense is not a theory or principle for a "time-binding" being. This theory is only…

— Alfred Korzybski

“In the eighteenth century, the Scottish Enlightenment focused attention on Glasgow and Edinburgh as centres of intellectual activity. The Scottish Enlightenment was an intellectual…

— Ronald Carter

“Most people in the Great Britain of (Adam) Smith's day lived in what most of us would regard as poverty. Hundreds of thousands were…

— Jerry Z. Muller

“If you actually read The Wealth of Nations, you’d know that’s what capitalism is all about. Competition on a level playing field. Not one…

— Irving Belateche

Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral…

— Arianna Huffington

“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