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Although Adam Smith is well-known for emphasizing division of labor, his analysis was woefully incomplete, as Dr. Mark Thornton points out.

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In this account, ad­vanced by Thomas Philbeck and Nicholas Davis of the World Economic Forum, analog machines replaced human ...

The American economic historian and labor economist is the third woman to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Elysse Bell is a finance and business writer for Investopedia. She writes ...

Keir Starmer rewrote the history books on July 5 last year when he delivered a majority of 174 for Labour in the House of Commons. The scale of the landslide meant it was widely assumed that, as the ...

The delayed release of the BLS report has led to fearmongering about the economy's ability to function. Leila Fadel, host of NPR's Up First, said on Friday that "businesses and policymakers are flying ...

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