Here’s how to make Canada wealthy again – The Hub

May 05, 2026

How do nations generate wealth? That was the question Adam Smith sought to answer in his seminal 1776 work, The Wealth of Nations, which laid the intellectual foundation for modern capitalism and economic policy.

The key, argued Smith, was in free markets and coordination through prices, rather than state intervention, using the “invisible hand” to match supply with demand. We now have 250 years of data to support Smith’s thesis. Free markets are not perfect, but they outperform state interventionism in the long term and provide greater prosperity and human development than any other system.

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