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In 1947, Ambedkar returned to The Problem of the Rupee. In a new preface he even promised a second volume that would bring his account up to the present and offer an updated solution.
A 1926 lecture by the British economist Edwin Cannan captures timeless truths about Adam Smith.
Smith was a free-trader. He did not favor a progressive income tax or any income tax. He did not call for regulation of monopolies.
Unfortunately, numerous economic fallacies and misconceptions seem to never die; they just return in slightly different forms at later dates. One hundred years ago, the countries of Europe were trying to recover from the consequences of the First World War. It was not only the cost in human life (estimated to be more than 20 million people) and the military expenditures of nearly $5 trillion in today’s dollars. It was the political and ideological legacies of the war, as well. The relatively classical liberal institutions that had generally prevailed in many of the Western nations before th...