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Adam Smith and Owning It with The Mystery of the Invisible Hand

Lauren Heller

June 23, 2022 How can teachers introduce their students to Adam Smith's insights with less eye rolling and more engaged learning? Lauren Heller suggests using a little mystery, The Mystery of the Invisible Hand by Marshall Jevons, that is. … charm your students, eye rolls accepted. Want More? You can purchase the book! Listen to a Great Antidote podcast featuring Kenneth Elzinga where he talks about the books and many other things A more traditional review of the book by Jeremy Lott

Adam Smith Helps Andrew Smith Explain Labor Markets

Andrew Smith

June 29, 2023 "It’s Adam Smith’s 'Invisible Hand' at work - by acting to satisfy our own gain, we direct our work that produces the greatest value not just to ourselves, but to society." … : A New Look at Smith’s Most Famous Sentences Paula Richey and Jeremy Lott's Adam Smith Comics: The Butcher, The Baker, and the Brewer Garret Edwards' Competition as a Discovery Procedure: Smith, Hayek and Leoni Peter Foster's Adam Smith's Invisible Hand

Adam Smith Comics: How The Theory of Moral Sentiments Begins

Sally Madden

July 11, 2023 "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others..." Thus, Adam Smith beings his Theory of Moral Sentiments and artist Sally Madden shows us another way … … and editor Jeremy Lott can be found here: The Opening of The Theory of Moral Sentiments More on Smithian Sympathy? Edward J. Harpham's Sympathy, Fellow-Feeling, and the Imagination Lauren Hall's Adam Smith, Sympathy, and Spontaneous Social-Moral Order

Adam Smith Comics: Not From Benevolence

Sally Madden

August 3, 2023 Though benevolence and charity are good and necessary things, they are not how most wants can be met. Even beggars must trade.

‘Humiliations Galore’: Adam Smith meets Miracle Max

Jordan J. Ballor

October 5, 2023 A pivotal scene from The Princess Bride illustrates a key Smithian insight. … on What would Adam Smith think about "vocations"? Elizabeth M. Hull's Adam Smith and Silas Marner: Heaps of Gold Adam Smith Comics: The Butcher, The Baker, and the Brewer by Paula Richey and Jeremy Lott AdamSmithWorks "An Animal That Trades" Video Series

Smith’s Man of System in Romeo and Juliet

James E. Hartley

November 13, 2023 Treating people like plants (or chessmen) doesn't work out and the results can be tragic. … Curtis and Jeremy Lott's Adam Smith Comics: Man of System Sarah Skwire's What Would Adam Smith Think of My Weekend? and Adam Smith’s Slips and the End of Othello Jeff Carroll's Mr. Potter: Man of System Lauren Hall's Self …

Adam Smith on Money and the Pursuit of Happiness

Richard Gunderman

"Happiness requires not that we obtain ever more but that we recognize when we have enough, so that we can turn our attention from mere idols to the things that really matter." … from mere idols to the things that really matter. Want more? Jimena Hurtado's Smith Snark on Bernard Mandeville Jeremy Lott and Jason Meadows' Adam Smith Comics: Trinkets of Frivolous Utility Erik Matson's Perspectives from Smith on Wealth and Happiness

Adam Smith Goes to the Dentist

Art Carden

Thoughts from the dentist's chair about pain prevention and cooperation. … our relatively pain-free lives possible. Want more? Adam Smith Comics: The Invisible Hand by Doug Curtis and Jeremy Lott Everybody Loves Mikey by Michael Munger at Econlib Donald Boudreaux, Michael Munger, and Russ Roberts on Emergent Order at EconTalk