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Philanthropy, Economy, and Human Betterment: A Conversation with Kenneth Boulding

By Robert F. Garnett, Jr.

The consensus among economists today, and indeed since Adam Smith, is that philanthropy plays no essential role in the formal theory or institutional structure of a complex, decentralized economy.

Adam Smith’s Unfinished Project

By Zoe Erler

Coming April 22nd: a lecture at St. Lawrence University by Senior Fellow Rob Garnett on “Commerce and Beneficence: Adam Smith’s Unfinished Project” Each individual in modern society “stands at all times in need of the cooperation and assistance of great multitudes,” Adam Smith observes.

Invisible Gnomes and Visible Samaritans

By Lenore Ealy

Mises Daily has posted a wonderful explication by Paul Cantor of the libertarian themes in the politically incorrect television show South Park.  

Who was Adam Smith?

By James R. Otteson

Adam Smith's ideas are credited by many for the unprecedented growth in wealth and prosperity the West has seen in the over two centuries since his death. They are also blamed by many for inequalities in wealth that have arisen since Smith’s time.

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