About the Program
A discussion of Adam Smith's highly cited economic title, The Wealth of Nations that was originally published in 1776. Our guests include Samuel Fleischacker, president of the International Adam Smith Society and Russell Roberts, economics professor at George Mason University. This program originally aired live and includes viewer calls and emails.
Samuel Fleischacker
Samuel Fleischacker is a philosophy professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of several books, including A Third Concept of Liberty: Judgment and Freedom in Kant and Adam Smith and On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Political Companion. Mr. Fleischacker is a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at Edinburgh University and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He is currently the president of the International Adam Smith Society.
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Russell Roberts
Russell Roberts is a economics professor at George Mason University as well as a research fellow a the Hoover Institution. Mr. Roberts is a founding advisory board member for the Library of Economics and Liberty, an on-line resource for research in economics and is the founder and former director of the Center for Experiential Learning at the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity.