Adam Smith was a successful writer in his life time and he is still well-known as one of the best. Nevertheless, I would like to highlight fact that most ideas made famous, were already written long ago they also spread widely academic world.
 In some cases, authors managed hide their sources inspiration; other cases writers ignored previous knowledge about specific field. This can be appl...

It is generally maintained that the systematic study of economics started from 1176 with the publication of the famous work, “An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith who has been universally hailed as the founding father of Economics. But the fact remains that “Adam Smith is a mystery in a puzzle wrapped in an enigma. The mystery is the enormous and unprece...

Abstract Economic geographers typically associate Adam Smith with the pin factory, division of labour, and ‘invisible hand’ market. We show that a closer reading The Wealth Nations reveals much richer broader range ideas, which we illustrate by focusing on six themes: methodology, role physical geography land in development, urban scale, institutions, commercial centres, financial geography. On...