Father of Economics
On JudgeMarket, Adam Smith sits firmly in the upper tier of Enlightenment-era thinkers, pricing in as a foundational asset the market rarely discounts. The bid is anchored by The Wealth of Nations, which effectively minted an entire academic discipline, and by the "invisible hand" becoming permanent infrastructure in political discourse. What caps the valuation is the persistent misreading — Smith is flattened into a libertarian mascot when his moral philosophy in The Theory of Moral Sentiments actually complicates that trade. Compared to Karl Marx, Smith carries lower volatility and a higher floor; Marx is a contested political asset, Smith is a consensus intellectual one. Aristotle trades in a similar foundational-thinker band, though with broader domain coverage. The market reads Smith as a reference name: low beta, durable premium, unlikely to re-rate sharply in either direction. You hold him; you don't trade him.
