250 years after the publication of “The Wealth of Nations”, Adam Smith remains a towering figure in economics. But could the field’s most famous book be less revolutionary than you might think? Mr Smith is cited as an influence on politicians from Margaret Thatcher to Javier Milei, but he’s also been widely misrepresented and credited with ideas that were not his own. So is he really the “father of economics”, or is his influence overstated?
Hosts: Mike Bird and Alice Fulwood. Guest: The Economist’s senior economics writer Callum Williams.
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