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Alice Temnick on Adam Smith as an Educator
May 3, 2024 What might it have been like to be a student of Adam Smith, and if he hadn't quit teaching, would we have ever gotten The Wealth of Nations? Host Juliette Sellgren explores these questions and more with master teacher Alice Temnick.
Smithian Imagination and Austen's Catharine or the Bower
Carly Jackson for AdamSmithWorks Adam Smith often used fictional examples to talk about his ideas. Carly Jackson takes his lead using an unfinished work of Jane Austen's juvenilia to help us think about sympathy, fellow-feeling, and imagination gone wrong.
Great Antidote Extras: David Boaz on Liberalism and the Continuing Progress of the Enlightenment
Janet Bufton for AdamSmithWorks "Materially, people in the United States are much better off. But they’ve also progressed in ways important to liberalism, which stands against racism, sexism, antisemitism, and laws oppressing gay people."