This DVD is an introduction to modern economics and the importance of free markets. The DVD is narrated by Dr Benjamin A Rogge of Wabash College and was prepared with the advice of Professors Ronald H Coase of the University of Chicago and E G West of Carleton University. From his childhood in Scotl[...]

DEN OSYNLIGA HANDEN
Adam Smith i urval
Översättning: Dagmar Lagerberg
Adam Smith har blivit en symbol för både liberalism och ekonomisk forskning. Han stod vid en knutpunkt i den ekonomiska idéhistorien. Många av de element han byggde sin nationalekon[...]

Adam Smith (1723-90) is a thinker with a distinctive perspective on human behaviour and social institutions. He is best known as the author of the An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). Yet his work is name-checked more often than it is read and then typically it is o[...]

Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - such as the 'Invisible Hand' of the market - have become icons of the modern world. Yet Smith saw himself primarily as a philosopher rather than an economist, [...]

Adam Smith's landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that competition is the engine of a productive society, and that self-interest will eventually come to enrich the whole community, as if by an 'invisible hand'. Throughout history, some books have changed [...]

Eric Schliesser's Adam Smith is the product of the author's two decades' reflection on the great Scottish Enlightenment. This book treats Adam Smith as a systematic philosopher. Smith was a giant of the Scottish Enlightenment with polymath interests. The book explores Smith's economics and ethics in[...]

Adam Smith (1723-90) is a thinker with a distinctive perspective on human behaviour and social institutions. He is best known as the author of the An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). Yet his work is name-checked more often than it is read and then typically it is o[...]

This accessible textbook offers a critical introduction to employment relations. It provides a thematic approach taking the subject beyond traditional coverage of trade unions and collective bargaining to tackle socio-political issues. The book is packed with up-to-date examples from Ryanair to Roya[...]