Adam Smith

The extent of the contact between Mr Smith and Mr Michel was revealed at the Leveson Inquiry where both are giving evidence. Mr Michel agreed there had been a 'pattern of very frequent communication' between News Corp and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport which increased from December 2010. It amounted to 191 phone calls, 158 emails and 799 texts, 90 per cent of which were with Mr Smith. 257 of the text messages were from Mr Smith to Mr Michel. Mr Michel told the inquiry: "I was...Read Full Story

Reach for the sky and end up with the starsWouldn’t it be nice as a nature or landscape photographer if everyday was that perfect day? But like all things we have the good, the bad, and even the ugly. But, when it comes to nature photography, you have one key advantage, you have far more opportunities when compared to landscape. In this article you are going to learn a few things, at least I hope.Just imagine a day where the lighting, composition, and weather were working in perfect harmony...Read Full Story

Anyone who reads Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations or The Theory of Moral Sentiments would want to know more about the author of those classic works. The Library of Congress says there are at least 300 works in several languages about Smith, but only about a dozen biographies, including James Buchan’s The Authentic Adam Smith (2006).There are two reasons there aren’t many Adam Smith biographies. First, Smith, like so many intellectuals of his time, was not a man who enjoyed baring his soul...Read Full Story

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The part of the brain we use when engaging in egalitarian behavior may also be linked to a larger sense of morality, researchers have found. Their conclusions, which offer scientific support for Adam Smith's theories of morality, are based on experimental research published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.The study, coming seven months after the start of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, which has been aimed at addressing income inequality, was...Read Full Story

In the most recent kick in the gut to the classical liberal ideals, they have been the negligent stewards of, some conservatives are once again harping about “compassionate conservatism.”There is no reason to make the principles and values this country was founded on more “compassionate”--that is what the Enlightenment was all about—freeing the individual from the tyranny of parasitic governments, and the bondage of irrational legal and moral justifications these thieves use to justify their...Read Full Story

Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) urged his colleagues on Monday to ensure that next year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) did not allow the military to detain anyone on U.S. soil without trial. The NDAA of 2013 released by House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard McKeon includes language stating that any person detained in the United States must have his or her day in court. “I want thank the Chairman for including language that restates current law as it applies to Habeas Corpus, but...Read Full Story

Francis Hutcheson: Teacher of Adam Smith Mises Daily: by Murray N. Rothbard [Excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith (1995). An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download.] Carmichael's most prominent student and follower was his successor at the chair of moral philosophy at Glasgow, Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746). Hutcheson, too, was the son of a Presbyterian minister...Read Full Story

Elizabeth Warren really hit a nerve among conservatives with her winning message about the the social contract and America’s economy. What I didn’t know is that she did it with an assist from the right’s favorite philosopher on economic policy. Just to review, here’s what Warren said. In a video of a recent Warren appearance, posted online by an individual who says he or she is not affiliated with the campaign, Warren answered the charge. “I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class...Read Full Story

Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Mark Skousen “Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interest under conditions of competition.”—George Stigler (emphasis added) Critics of laissez faire—from Cambridge economic historian Emma Rothschild to British Labor Party leader Gordon Brown—have recently attempted to wrestle Adam Smith out of the hands of the free-market camp and...Read Full Story