Adam Smith’s

Nov 4, 2024 | econlib.org | Art Carden |Adam Smith’s |Karl Marx

Economics in One Lesson author Henry Hazlitt said that good ideas must be re-learned every generation. As I tell my economic history students, we’re contending for the values of the Enlightenment—life, liberty, equality, and the resulting prosperity. Contrary to what we are often told, we owe our prosperity to liberty, not exploitation, and a flourishing future for all requires that Adam Smith’s “liberal plan of equality, liberty, and justice” be extended more broadly.

Jul 3, 2023 | econlib.org | Rosolino A. Candela |Gary Becker |Adam Smith’s

Since at least the publication of Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb in 1968, the narrative that has gripped both academicians and the popular audience has been one of a world that is overpopulated.