Adam Smith Awards
Launched in 2008, the Adam Smith Awards are now in their 16th year and are a globally recognised endorsement of corporate treasury achievement. Competition is fierce and winning an Adam Smith Award is a true accolade.
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The Adam Smith Awards are firmly established as the ultimate ‘benchmark’ for true treasury talent and our highly respected judging panel will be looking for innovation, creativity, outstanding insight, thinking ‘outside the box’ and, of course, real business impact.
Why are they called the Adam Smith Awards?
Adam Smith (1723-1790) helped to develop modern economic theory and provided a rationale for free trade and the capitalist system. He was a leading innovator of free-market policies and an advocate of a free society and is perhaps best known for his series of books ‘An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations’ normally referred to as ‘The Wealth of Nations’. This work advocates the division of labour and the benefits of competition and free trade and also has some wonderful observations on how markets work: