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Smith and Samuel Johnson: Unlucky Altercation?

Thomas Keymer for AdamSmithWorks October 14, 2020 … . Indianapolis: Liberty Fund. Stoppard, Tom. 1972. Jumpers. London: Faber & Faber. Thomson, James. 1986. Liberty, The Castle of Indolence, and Other Poems. Oxford: Clarendon Press. As an Amazon Associate, AdamSmithWorks earns from qualifying purchases.

Adam Smith on Education: Schooling

Jack Russel Weinstein for AdamSmithWorks December 18, 2019 … he spent two years chaperoning his tutee and charge, The young Duke of Buccleuch, on a trip through France. It would therefore be more than odd to think Smith had nothing to say on the subject. It would be, to use one of his favorite terms, a perversion. 

Book IV, Chapter 5

Of Bounties … which is done in each as perfect and complete as possible. The expence of premiums, besides, is very trifling; that of bounties very great. The bounty upon corn alone has sometimes cost the public in one year more than three hundred thousand pounds.*68

Hume and Smith on Benevolence and Justice (June 2023)

June 2023 with Ted Harpham … 1, Chapter II, “Of the Principle Which Gives Occasion to the Division of Labor” Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2, Book IV, Chapter IX (paragraphs 50-52), and Book V, Part II, “Of the Expense of Justice”

Book III, Chapter 4

How the Commerce of the Towns Contributed to the Improvement of the Country

Kristi Kendall on Human Action and Inspiring Through Ideas

Kristi Kendall with Juliette Sellgren April 5, 2024

Chapter V

Of Bounties