Who is Adam Smith and what were his ideas?

Adam Smith is renowned as "The Father of Economics" for his work in pioneering ideas such as free trade and GDP. Adam Smith is renowned as "The Father of Economics" for his work in pioneering ideas such as free trade and GDP. read more

Smith has been celebrated by advocates of free market policies as the founder of free market economics, a view reflected in the naming of bodies such as the Adam Smith Institute in London, the Adam Smith Society and the Australian Adam Smith Club, and in terms such as the Adam Smith necktie. read more