Economics
Adam Smith’s ‘Wealth of Nations’ Updated for Climate Challenge
- Economists publish new essays based on Smith’s famous work
- Economists playing growing role in climate change debate
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Three centuries before Glasgow hosted the COP26 conference aimed at mitigating climate change, it played home to Adam Smith, often credited as the “father of economics.”
Now, the past and the present are colliding as a group of economists publish a rethink of Smith’s most famous work, “The Wealth of Nations,” to reflect the modern challenge of a warming planet.