Source: Washington Post
by Jesse Norman
“On March 9, 1776, four months before the American colonies broke with Britain over the issue of taxation, a little-known Scottish thinker published a long, dense book with an unpromising title: ‘An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.’ Two hundred and fifty years later, Adam Smith is, by any objective measure, easily the most widely cited and widely quoted economist who ever lived. Astonishingly, his work still frames the central questions we face, not just about free markets, trade and capitalism, but about the nature of human society, and even what it is to be human at all.” (03/06/26)