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Who was Adam Smith, and does he deserve to be on our banknotes? ; The big question
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Why is Adam Smith in the news?
The Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, has announced
that a portrait of Adam Smith will feature on a redesigned [pound]20
banknote, to come into circulation next year. He is said to be the
first Scot to be so honoured, although he is already on the
[pound]50 note issued by the Bank of Scotland. He replaces the
composer, Sir Edward Elgar, who has been the face of [pound]20 since
1999. The note will also show a picture of a pin-making factory an...
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Who was Adam Smith, and does he deserve to be on our banknotes? ; The big question
The Independent - London
; Why is Adam Smith in the news? The Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, has announced that a portrait of Adam Smith will feature on a redesigned [pound ...
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Book review: Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty: Forever king of the economics class
The Scotsman
; Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty by James Buchan Profile Books, 145pp, GBP 14.99 IF YOU WERE A REGULAR walker on the Salisbury Crags high above Edinburgh on crisp mornings during the early 1780s, you would be familiar with two earnest gentlemen whose passion was examining the geology
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Adam Smith sculpture to tower over Royal Mile
Evening News - Scotland
; IT will be a fitting tribute to one of the giants of modern thinking. A towering statue of Adam Smith - the Scottish pioneer of economics - which will stand 20ft high above the Royal Mile was unveiled today. Created by Alexander Stoddart, the celebrated sculptor behind the nearby statue of Smith's
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Adam Smith & me By PJ O'Rourke ; The original Republican Party Reptile is back. P J O'Rourke's sharp, stylish commentary on Adam Smith, champion of the free market, is already an American bestseller. As it hits the shelves in Britain, John Walsh discovers why this dour 18th-century philosopher is once again the talk of the town - and (right) the author shows us the colour of his money
The Independent - London
; ... self- interest. That was Smith's best insight. To a 21st-century reader this hardly sounds like news. Or, rather, it sounds like everything that's in the news. These days, altruism itself is proclaimed at the top of the altruist's lungs. Certainly it ...
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Father of capitalism Adam Smith 'would back New Labour' - Brown
The Scotsman
; GORDON Brown is to claim that the father of modern economics and free market capitalism, Adam Smith, was spiritually an early member of New Labour, in a book published later this year. The Chancellor had challenged Iain McLean, a professor of politics at Oxford University, to write a book on where
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Don't blame Adam Smith for all this nonsense ; EDITORIAL & OPINION
The Independent - London
; ... on the [pound]20 note. Many of us know him mostly because of the Adam Smith Institute which, in the 1980s, was always in the news for its proposals to solve every problem by bringing in the free market. So you'd read stories like: "A new report from the Adam ...
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Monumental profits; Adam Smith.(The economist's house is on the market)
The Economist (US)
; A man for most seasons The economist's house is on the (free) market IN MOST countries it would have been marked by a fanfare of press releases and a long roll of fund-raising drums. Not in Scotland. This week Edinburgh's city council put on the market the house where Adam Smith spent his last 12
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Obituary: Janet Adam Smith
The Independent - London
; BIOGRAPHER, MOUNTAINEER, critic, literary editor, textual scholar, comic versifier, visiting professor, hostess, anthologist, traveller - there seemed to be nothing at which Janet Adam Smith did not shine. And she shone with an intensity that made others glow in response. A cosmopolitan with close
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Adam Smith and Greed
Journal of Private Enterprise
; The virtues of greed have been widely promoted by some economists in the 20th century. Allegedly it is Adam Smith who provides this new dignity to greed (Lerner, 1937, ix). Kenneth Arrow and Frank Hahn in the General Equilibrium Analysis (1971), for example, implicitly assume that Adam Smith's
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Adam Smith a man for our time
Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
; Two hundred years ago this month, the world lost a man who was arguably the greatest economist who has ever lived - the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith. It's not entirely coincidental that Smith's great work, "The Wealth of Nations," was published the same year, 1776, that a band of freedom-loving
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