Adam Smith Society

In late 2010, the Manhattan Institute partnered with the Marilyn G. Fedak Capitalism Project to establish the Adam Smith Society at elite U.S. business schools,[1][5] with a goal to create a new organization to:

...provide future business leaders with access to contemporary thought leaders who were at the forefront of understanding and promoting the market economy, while giving young men and women the tools they needed to promote a positive and thoughtful understanding of the free market system on their campuses.[2]

Since 2011, the Adam Smith Society has expanded to more than 30 chapters at MBA schools, as well as professional chapters in major cities. In 2014, the Adam Smith Society collaborated with Encounter Books and James R. Otteson to publish an anthology of writings by Adam Smith and other important economic thinkers titled What Adam Smith Knew.[6] In fall 2017, the Society launched their first international professional chapter in London, United Kingdom.[7] The Society's first international student chapter was founded at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel in May 2018.[8]

The Adam Smith Society is not directly related to the 19th century Adam Smith Society promoted by Italian economist and proponent of capitalism Francesco Ferrara,[9][10] and to the International Adam Smith Society established in 1995,[11] although it has some interests in common with each of these, and all share the same namesake.

As of 2019, the organization had nine city-based professional chapters and more than 30 student chapters. Professional chapters are located in Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, London, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.[12] Student chapters can be found at most of the top business schools across the United States, and in several other countries.[13] These include:

• Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University
• Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
• Questrom School of Business, Boston University
• Marriott School of Business, Brigham Young University
• Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
• Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
• Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado–Boulder
• College of Business and Administration, The University of Colorado–Colorado Springs
• Columbia Business School, Columbia University
• SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University
• Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
• Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
• Goizueta Business School, Emory University
• McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
• Harvard Business School, Harvard University
• Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
• MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
• Stern School of Business, New York University
• Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
• The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University
• Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University
• Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
• McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
• UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles
• Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
• UNC Kenan–Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• USC Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
• Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University
• Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
• Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis
• Yale School of Management, Yale University
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame

The organization has an Advisory Board composed of the following members:[21]

• Marilyn G. Fedak, Vice President Emeritus, Alliance Bernstein and Founder, Marilyn G. Fedak Capitalism Project
• Evan Baehr, Co-Founder, Able Lending, & Co-Author, Get Backed
• Eugene B. Meyer, President, The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
• Lawrence Mone, President, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
• James Piereson, President, The William E. Simon Foundation