Adam Smith’s Civilizing Process
by Peter J. LeithartAdam Smith, a founding theorist of capitalism, agreed with many criticisms of commercial culture. Continue Reading »
Adam Smith, a founding theorist of capitalism, agreed with many criticisms of commercial culture. Continue Reading »
Donald Trump ascribing responsibility for his first two failed marriages to working “like, twenty-two hours a day” brought to mind Adam Smith’s invocation of the “invisible hand” in his 1759 work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. There, the invisible hand is not quite the same general . . . . Continue Reading »
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