What are the causes of prosperity? In addition to saving, capital accumulation, and good institutions, Adam Smith … explains opulence through vanity and luck, two variables we tend to forget today. For Smith, wealth comes from our propensity … seem to be more of an accident of history rather than deliberate attempts to create prosperity. For Smith, vanity and …

-interest allegedly originating in Adam Smith. I embark on sketching a ‘third culture’ in economics, employing a notion from cross … woven together in a comparison between Confucian thinking and Adam Smith, especially with regard to the ‘Theory of Moral …

successive failures in the fight against poverty have led to new strategies to combat it, an example of which is "pro-poor growth …

-interest allegedly originatingin Adam Smith. I embark on sketching a ‘third culture’ in economics, employing anotion from cross … woven together in a comparison between Confucianthinking and Adam Smith, especially with regard to the ‘Theory of Moral …

: Adam Smith -- 2. For deductive method and rent over poor relief: David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus -- 3. For maximizing …