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Why is Adam Smith important today?

AdamSmithWorks Reading Groups

An Opportunity for Reading and Thinking Together
We are pleased to offer Virtual Reading Groups on a variety of topics related to Smith, designed to gather interested individuals interested in serious and civil discussion.

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An Animal That Trades

A five-part short video series on the life and contemporary relevance of Adam Smith.

Part 1: The Invisible Hand

Part 2: The Free Market

Part 3: Division of Labor

Part 4: Sympathy

From The Theory of Moral Sentiments to modern neuroscience and experimental economics, explore how our sociality makes us naturally inclined to be concerned for the well-being of others. 

Part 5: The Role of Authority

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Watch the complete 38 minute series uninterrupted.

#WealthofTweets



#WealthofTweets Book I

Of the Causes of Improvement in the productive Powers of Labour, and of the Order according to which its Produce is naturally distributed among the different Ranks of the People

#WealthofTweets Book II

Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock

by Sarah Skwire and Janet Bufton

#WealthofTweets: Book III

Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations

#WealthofTweets: Book IV

Of Systems of political Economy

#WealthofTweets: Book V

Of the Revenue of the Sovereign of Commonwealth

The Smith Questionnaire

The Smith Questionnaire


Watch as we subject some of our favorite scholars to some silly questions about Smith.

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