"Someone once said that you get knowledge from non-fiction, but you get wisdom from fiction. Jonathan Wight demonstrates this beautifully. Wight uses an entertaining and profound story to show how we can live a better life, have a better society, and serve the best in everyone by taking a broader view—one of both virtue and practicality. People of all ages, but particularly students, will have this book available to give them a deeper, more integrated view of what our world can be. This is a remarkable achievement and a fun read."

—Michael Ray

Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business,
co-author, Creativity in Business and The New Paradigm in Business
and author, Two Questions (2002)

"Saving Adam Smith provides us an everyday look at traditional economic theory put into real-time business decision making ... a socially responsible approach to globalization. Anyone who talks about the 'invisible hand' and doesn't understand the moral context in which it operates has probably never read this book, nor ever had the pleasure of a campfire conversation with Adam Smith!"

—Daniel J. Gertsacov

CEO, Forum on Business and Social Responsibility in the Americas
(Forum EMPRESA)

"We all live in Adam Smith's economic world, but as Jonathan Wight's wise and witty story show us, it's not exactly the world that Smith had in mind. In his lively tale, Wight brings Smith back to remind economics students and readers of all stripe that we are not here to serve the economy, the economy is here to serve the needs of everyone in our society."

—Joanne B. Ciulla

Professor and Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics,
University of Richmond and author of The Working Life:
The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work

"Terrific.... [T]he book will make the ideas of Adam Smith much more accessible to high school and college students.... Adam Smith's philosophy emphasizing the virtue, morality, and trust that are needed for a market economy is right on the money for today. Saving Adam Smith [is] an outstanding addition to the economic theory novel genre."

—John Morton

Vice President, National Council on Economic Education

"Wight's tale of adventure presents Smith's insights about self-interest in the wider context of his social philosophy. The book challenges students—and economists—to follow Smith in making room for justice and conscience in economic choices."

—David C. Smith

President, Council for Ethics in Economics

"The story is engaging at several levels. I was drawn to keep reading it... This manuscript makes a real contribution."

—James Halteman

Carl R. Hendrickson Professor of Business and Economics,
Wheaton College