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

As a last, desperate throw of the dice in the Great War, the Germans detonated an unusual kind of weapon in St Petersburg.

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.

J. S. Mill argues that free trade has done more to put an end to war than any political union or military alliance.

Victorian MP Richard Cobden believed British politicians supporting the slave-owning American South had been led a merry dance.