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The Invisible Threads: Adam Smith and the Global Second-Hand Clothing Trade
Joy Buchanan for AdamSmithWorks "Even though some parts of this trade run on American good will (Goodwill pun intended), ultimately the people doing the heavy lifting have to make a profit to keep going. Benevolence alone does not get shirts from Arizona … … wonder" EconTalk with Russ Roberts’ Adam Minter on Secondhand Amy Willis’ EconTalk Extra The Kids Don't Want It Sarah Skwire’s We Can Rebuild That. We Can Make it Better (a great comparison to Sarah Skwire’s What Would Adam Smith Think of My Weekend?)
Adam Smith Also Teaches Good Teaching
Jon Murphy for AdamSmithWorks "Literature provides a connection throughout a culture, a touchstone for us to understand more abstract things. Adam Smith used literature references throughout The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations to …
The Ongoing Search for Adam Smith (with Freakonomics)
Sarah Skwire for AdamSmithWorks The Freakonomics podcast wants to present Adam Smith as a person - not just two old books on a shelf. Did they succeed? Find out what Skwire says. Who was the real Adam Smith? Was Adam Smith really a right-winger? Can Adam Smith fix our economy? The Freakonomics podcast recently produced a three-part series on Adam Smith featuring a lot of names (Russ Roberts! Glory Liu! Dennis Rasmussen!) that will …
Was Adam Smith Really Like Freakonomics Suggests?
… for AdamSmithWorks The Freakonomics podcast offers criticisms of too-left or too-right interpretations of Adam Smith but fails to present the connections between Smith's two major works. Skwire takes on episode 2 of "In Search of the Real Adam Smith." The second episode of the Freakonomics Radio series on Adam Smith, "Was Adam Smith Really a Right-Winger?" leaves the question of Smith as a person aside, and dives fairly heavily into some inside baseball about the Chicago School of economics and how it …
If Bernard Mandeville is Larry David, who's Jerry Seinfeld? Adam Smith, of course.
Garret Edwards for AdamSmithWork Smith's review on Mandeville’s has an interesting presentation: In ‘The Theory of Moral Sentiments,’ Smith reviews the great systems of moral philosophy and devotes a long chapter to Mandeville, who he judges as " …
Adam Smith on Women's and Mothers' Roles
Chris Loukas for AdamSmithWorks During Women’s History month is a great time to see what Adam Smith thought about women and their role in the family. Although mostly remembered for his work as an economist one can find insights scattered through his works … … You Read a Romance Novel (And Have a Laugh At Yourself) | Adam Smith Works Edward Harpham's A Mother’s Suffering through the Eyes of Adam Smith | Adam Smith Works Sarah Skwire, Nothing Useless, Absurd, or Fantastical: Adam Smith on Women's Education
Giandomenica Becchio on Feminist Economics
Giandomenica Becchio with Juliette Sellgren March 22, 2024
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 …
Shal Marriott and Daniel Lukac for AdamSmithWorks Should a good Smithian abstain from watching the Oscars for fear we might encourage a corrupting disposition to admire the rich and powerful? Pass the popcorn says Marriott and Lukac.
June 8, 2023 Nobel laureate Vernon L. Smith looks back on the occasion of being the one to unveil the monument to Adam Smith in Edinburgh. … . Sarah Skwire has a great time with Vernon and the Smith Questionnaire. Vernon Smith on Adam Smith and the Human Enterprise, an EconTalk podcast. Vernon Smith, What Adam Smith Means to Me, a Liberty Matters feature at the Online Library of Liberty.
Great Antidote Extras: Cheryl Miller on Hertog and the Humanities
Nancy Vander Veer for AdamSmithWorks Vander Veer listens in and reminds us that learning is more than schooling. She also offers ideas for keeping it up reading and conversation beyond the classroom.
Macbeth's Ambition and Smith's Words of Warning
Lucia Alden for AdamSmithWorks "Smith posits that the way to avoid ambition and 'live free, fearless, and independent' is to never raise the poisonous chalice of place to one’s lips..." … OLL Reading Room Sarah Skwire’s Cromwell and the Chiseling of the Court Jesse S. Cone’s The Hazards of Ambition Jon Murphy’s Why do we Admire Celebrities? Garret Edwards’ Adam Smith Would Not Approve of Logan Roy Essays on Adam Smith’s Moral …
Great Antidote Extras: Peter Boettke on Don Lavoie and Central Planning, Part 2
Janet Bufton for AdamSmithWorks "Lavoie advocates that we turn the core insight of public choice on its head. Human action in the market sphere isn’t separate from politics but is imbued with the same value-rich interpersonal discourse that permeates all …
Drama versus Data- Adam Smith on Description
Sarah Skwire for AdamSmithWorks People simply don’t respond to data the way they do to drama. Adam Smith—economist and professor of rhetoric—was ideally equipped to understand and explain why. Many of the academics I know lament that the work that they do, which presents such clear arguments and evidence for ways to increase human flourishing, seems to pale in comparison to the emotional appeal of a film, a novel, or a television show that …
Father's Day Advice from Adam Smith
Shannon Chamberlain for AdamSmithWorks "[C]ultivating indifference to ourselves and those closest to us causes us not only to fail in our domestic roles in a way that displeases the spectator, but also to lose the ability to feel for the more distant …
… your scholar-hosts Sarah Skwire and Aeon Skoble May 6, 2019 Editor's Note: Please help us maintain this as a NO SPOILER space. References up to and including Infinity Wars and Captain Marvel are acceptable, but please no spoilers for Endgame. Thank you! In our recent essay on Adam Smith and the Avengers, we had some fun labelling the Avengers according to Smith’s categories of Wonder, Surprise, and Admiration. We noted that: All three of the words tell us how humans respond to various stimuli. Wonder is …
On First Looking into The Wealth Of Nations
How does a student of poetry come to love Smithian political economy? Sarah Skwire counts the ways... May 20, 2019 Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was the first book of economics I ever read. Smith wasn’t the first economist I had read. I’d encountered F. A. Hayek’s essay “Why I Am Not a Conservative” a few years earlier, …
What Would Adam Smith Think of My Weekend?
with Sarah Skwire June 3, 2019 I spent this weekend in my garden. The lettuce and carrot sprouts needed thinning. The thistles had mounted an impressive counter-attack in my on-going war to wrest back control over my butterfly and bee garden. And that dying bush by the corner of the …
What would Adam Smith think about your iPhone?
with Sarah Skwire July 1, 2019 Adam Smith was worried about your iPhone. In Theory of Moral Sentiments he observes: How many people ruin themselves by laying out money on trinkets of frivolous utility? What pleases these lovers of toys is not so much the utility, as the aptness of the …
Jesse S. Cone for AdamSmithWorks "Smith is advocating for the dispersion of capital, not its consolidation. If his system is working on behalf of someone, it certainly is not for the oligarch." … threatens to erode that trust and stymie our corporate wellbeing. We do well to remember the truth. Want to read more? Jesse S. Cone's The Hazards of Ambition Sarah Skwire's Money and Virtue in the Ancient World Jeff Carroll's Mr. Potter: Man of System