A view has emerged which sees Adam Smith’s main contribution to economics in terms of his equilibrium theory. This paper argues that equilibrium economics was neither Smith’s main contribution nor his chief concern. It is true that Smith made a few observations which may be construed as equilibrium economics in some loose sense. For example, his observation that the market price of a commodity ...

Tom Jones is a typical eighteenth-century hero: he is beaten, bullied, seduced, betrayed, and banished by numerous other characters in the narrative. He performs very little action himself, and that rather unsuccessfully. In one escapade in Book XIII, the hero overwhelmed by London society and ignored by his hosts, Fielding writes that “Poor Jones was rather a Spectator of this elegant scene, t...

Adam Smith was a successful writer in his life time and he is still well-known as one of the best. Nevertheless, I would like to highlight fact that most ideas made famous, were already written long ago they also spread widely academic world.
 In some cases, authors managed hide their sources inspiration; other cases writers ignored previous knowledge about specific field. This can be appl...