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Adam Smith's Two Books: You Can't Have One Without the Other
Michael Munger
What’s the relationship between The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations? Are they in tension—or part of a deeper unity? In this second episode, Mike Munger dives into Adam Smith’s “two-book problem,” exploring how Smith’s moral philosophy …
Jacob Levy on Smith, Hayek, and Social Justice
Juliette Sellgren and Jacob Levy
The title of this episode might confuse you: what on earth do Adam Smith and F. A. Hayek have to say about social justice? A surprising amount, given how much we talk about it!
July 4th: One Piece of Our Founding Trilogy
Thomas Koenig
July 1, 2021 We should not view the three holidays of April 9th, Juneteenth, and July 4th as wholly distinct occasions, but rather as three parts of a coherent American whole. … reason to believe the trend will persist. Thomas Koenig is an incoming 1L student at Harvard Law School. Twitter @thomaskoenig98. Suggested Reading: Liberty Matters, July 2021, "Understanding Jefferson: Slavery, Race, and the Declaration of Independence"
Juliette Sellgren and David Beito
Not often do we find people who make the case for how race, liberty, and equality belong together. Even less often do we find them making arguments in the height of racially and economically troubled times. And EVEN LESS do we find audio clips of them …
Why Freedom Matters: Tom Palmer on Authoritarianism and January 6th
Juliette Sellgren and Tom Palmer
Why does freedom matter? How can we defend it in an age of rising authoritarianism? In this episode, I sit down with Tom Palmer to explore the ideas, virtues, and strategies that keep liberty alive.
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
Amy Willis
Amy Willis for AdamSmithWorks Part 4 of 4 of Amy Willis' #ReadWithMe on Andrew Curran's Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely: Politics, Education, and Ideology
Extras: William B. Allen on The State of Black America
Christy Lynn Horpedahl
September 11, 2022 What is the heartbeat of the American Project and what is the place of Black Americans in it? The Great Antidote podcasts explores hard questions and uncomfortable answers with Juliette Sellgren and William B. Allen.
Extras: Rachel Ferguson on Black Liberation Through the Marketplace
Christy Lynn Horpedahl
October 25, 2022 Rachel Ferguson shares her discovery of the long and rich tradition of pro-black classical liberalism in the United States with host Juliette Sellgren. It's a tradition that made and can continue to make a big difference but isn't always …
Review: Muller on Soll's Free Market: The History of an Idea
Jerry Z. Muller
January 11, 2023 Soll's Smith is scrutinized and Muller demonstrates a minor replication crisis in the Humanities.
Muller on Soll's Free Market: The History of an Idea
Jerry Z. Muller
January 11, 2023 Soll's Smith is scrutinized and Muller demonstrates a minor replication crisis in the Humanities.
How Commerce Invented Liberty: Smith & the Division of Land
Michael Munger
Mike Munger explains Adam Smith’s institutional theory of growth: left to its “natural course,” capital first flows to agriculture, then domestic manufactures, and only later to foreign trade. In Europe, that order was inverted by feudal institutions— …
The Bard and The Professor: Adam Smith’s Influence on Robert Burns
Kenly Stewart
December 27, 2020 … , Adam Smith on Slavery Max Skjönsberg, Adam Smith's Readers in Eighteenth-Century Libraries Kenly Stewart, The Professor and the Statesman: The Friendship of Adam Smith and Edmund Burke Kenly Stewart, The Hopeful Vision of Saint Augustine and Adam Smith
Paul Schwennesen
June 8, 2020 The word exploit has now come to be synonymous with theft, which is a pity because it allows so much of what works in the world to be lumped in with what doesn’t. … now means something akin to slavery. But slavery means force, coercion, and lack of choice. So let’s not get confused: as long as there is a sliver of choice in human transactions, then the world “exploit” needs to be understood in its old-fashioned way.
Duane Kelly
On the friendship between David Hume and Adam Smith a play by Duane Kelly
Of the Discouragement of Agriculture in the Ancient State of Europe after the Fall of the Roman Empire