For our U.S. cattle and sheep industries, do you want free markets or competitive markets? That’s not a trick question as there’s presently significant political tension between these two goals. Let’s ...

Capitalism must adapt to change, reforming to sustain living standards and preserve legitimacy and liberal democracy ...

As Shapiro spoke to a crowd of over 600 attendees inside the Penn Museum’s Harrison Auditorium, hundreds more waited in line ...

LONDON, March 8 (Reuters) - Tax the rich. Trash the tariffs. End monopolies. Such are the rallying calls of many of today's most heated economic debates. They could also come straight from the pen of ...

Capitalism has its own origin story. Back in feudal society, the story goes, there were some labourers who worked hard and ...

Adam Smith, a Scotsman, and Karl Marx, a German, are probably the two best known political economists in the Conceptual West. They lived a few decades apart and each had profound impact on how ...

Guest: Glory Liu is a lecturer in social studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism.

What Would Adam Smith Think of Donald Trump? On Merryn Talks Money, we discuss the Republican’s attitude toward tariffs, taxes and regulation, and whether it fits with the economist’s definition of ...