Adam Smith asks employers to pay the most generous wages their finances will allow.

Adam Smith encourages employers to restrict working hours to reasonable limits, for humanity and for profit.

Pauline de Meulan’s magazine Publiciste was close to going out of business when an anonymous contributor stepped in.

A nation with its own laws and a strong sense of shared cultural identity makes good economic sense.

Adam Smith warns that politicians are the last people who should lecture the public about how to run their affairs.

The colourful Foreign Secretary humbly accepted a lesson in manners from a local tradesman.