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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 … that “…the most dissimilar geniuses are of use to each other.” I haven’t stopped being fascinated by his particular form of genius, and the particular tools in the economist’s toolkit since. But the Appendix on the price of herring is still pretty boring.
#ReadWithMe: Ritchie Robertson’s The Enlightenment: Science Goes Public
Amy Willis for AdamSmithWorks Early in the Enlightenment, science was still haunted by the specter of charlatanry, and scientists were keen to demystify science. The Royal Society came into existence, illustrating the emphasis on community and … … Networking, at Speaking of Smith Vernon Smith, Adam Smith: Scientist and Evolutionist, at AdamSmithWorks Graham McAleer, Smith’s Scientific Milestones, at Speaking of Smith Mike Young, Eastern Science, Individualism, and Adam Smith, at Speaking of Smith
Smithian Exchange Among Non-Human Animals
James E. Hanley for AdamSmithWorks Smith wrote about the human propensity to "truck, barter, and exchange," but the modern science of animal behavior suggests that we are not exactly alone in this capability. What would you give for a chance to hold someone else’s baby? For baboon females, the price is grooming the mother. Baboons groom each other for health, picking parasites off each other in places they can’t reach by themselves, and for social bonding, but …
The Physics and Metaphysics of Liberty: Adam Smith and William Blake
Richard Gunderman for AdamSmithWorks "Smith’s moral, political, and economic cases for liberty are compelling, stated as they are in purely practical terms, yet they leave some stones unturned. Enter William Blake, who asks, what if liberty is not only … … be free, and any attempt to fetter us represents an offense against the divinely ordered reality. Should liberty’s defenders find themselves languishing for want of inspiration, they would be well-advised to supplement their reading of Smith with Blake.
Heroes of the Smithian Turn, Part 2 of 2
Nicole Penn for AdamSmithWorks Penn invites readers to consider the Smithian ideas of sympathy and imagination woven throughout Will Arbery’s play Heroes of the Fourth Turning. Part 2 of 2. … TMS, 181. [9] Arbery, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, 81. [10] TMS, 62. [11] Arbery, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, 73. [12] TMS, 12. [13] TMS, 181. [14] Arbery, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, 74. [15] Arbery, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, 29. [16] TMS, 169.
Are the Interests of Those Who Live by Profit Ours?
Alex Aragona for AdamSmithWorks September 14, 2020 … same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.” Also by Alex Aragona: Adam Smith and the Costs of the Division of Labor
Of the Division of Labour … contrasts the value of water with that of diamonds. The cheapness of water is referred to by Plato Euthydem. 304 B., quoted by Pufendorf, De jure naturæ et gentium, lib. v., cap. i., § 6; cp. Barbeyrac’s note on § 4.] 85. [Ed. 1 reads ‘subject which is’.]
Prompt: Equality and natural talent
Use this quotation from Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations to talk about whether people are born equal. “Bellringers” are classroom tools that help set the tone or introduce a topic in the classroom. Adam Smith Works bellringers use quotations from and activities based on the work of Adam Smith, allowing you to illustrate the long history of the ideas you …
Max Skjönsberg for AdamSmithWorks Skjönsberg reviews Paul Sagar's edited volume of critical essays on Adam Smith. Sagar's edition shows Adam Smith continuing to be a source of insight and inspiration to political theorists, philosophers, historians, … … been read). But curiously enough, the better we understand Smith as a man of the eighteenth century, and the better we learn to separate him from his reception and reputation, the more urgently, if sometimes indirectly, he appears to speak to us today.
Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth … of Marcus and Quintus Cicero.] 159. [The Lectures leave little doubt that this is a fragment of autobiography.] 160. [Ed. 5 reads `expenses,’ but this seems to be a misprint or misreading suggested by the fact that several expenses have been mentioned.]
Of the Rise and Progress of Cities and Towns … and from the Levant, the manufacture itself being in imitation of those carried on in the Greek empire. Mulberry trees were first plants in Lombardy in the beginning of the sixteenth century, by the encouragement of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan.’]
Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock The whole of the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments of labour and stock must, in the same neighbourhood, be either perfectly equal or continually tending to equality. If in the same neighbourhood, there was any employment evidently …
An Interview with Adam Smith: Part 3
Alejandra Salinas for AdamSmithWorks This text presents Smith’s ideas in the manner of an imaginary dialogue or interview with a contemporary person, where Smith answers the questions of our time (formulated here in the voice of the interlocutor) mainly …
Adam Smith: Self-Interest and the Partiality of the Moral Sentiments
Edward J. Harpham for AdamSmithWorks February 24, 2021 … Smith, Adam. 1982. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Edited by D.D. Raphael and A.L. Mafie. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund. Related Links: Jonathan Jacobs, Adam Smith on Moral Education Clark Neily, A Modern Lawyer and Smith's Lectures on Jurisprudence, Part 2
Adam Smith, Inclination, and Need: A Re-interpretation of Self-Interest
Catherine Pakaluk for AdamSmithWorks By Andrea Vanni - freeforumzone.leonardo.it, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6926007 August 19, 2020 … , “The Dialogue” (Mahwah, NJ, Paulist Press, Inc. 1980), 38.↩ Eric Gregory, “Sympathy and Domination: Adam Smith, Happiness, and the Virtues of Augustinianism,” in Paul Oslington, “Adam Smith as Theologian,” (New York: Taylor & Francis, 2011), 35-42.↩
Review: Skjönsberg on Stafford's The Case of Ireland
Max Skjönsberg for AdamSmithWorks While other countries improved in trade and wealth during the Enlightenment, Ireland remained relatively poorer longer. Adam Smith, James Stafford, and Max Skjönsberg weigh in on the case of Ireland. November 9, 2022 … cited: Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (2 vols., Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1982 [1776]). Ernest Campbell Mossner and Ian Simpson Ross (eds.), Correspondence of Adam Smith (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1987).
Skjönsberg on Stafford's The Case of Ireland
Max Skjönsberg for AdamSmithWorks While other countries improved in trade and wealth during the Enlightenment, Ireland remained relatively poorer longer. Adam Smith, James Stafford, and Max Skjönsberg weigh in on the case of Ireland. November 9, 2022 … cited: Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (2 vols., Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1982 [1776]). Ernest Campbell Mossner and Ian Simpson Ross (eds.), Correspondence of Adam Smith (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1987).
Is it Smith? Facts and Myths about the Life of Adam Smith
Using a trivia game, students explore common myths and less well-known facts about Adam Smith. Background information, questions for discussion, and resources for further exploration are included. … thought and discussion. Every video in the series is relevant for reinforcing what was taught in this lesson plan. The Invisible Hand (6:44) The Free Market (7:37) Division of Labor (8:51) Sympathy (8:53) The Role of Authority (9:11) Full Feature (40:43)
Readings of Smith by Contemporary Political Philosophers: John Rawls
Alejandra Salinas for AdamSmithWorks September 22, 2021
WN Reading Guide: Book I, Chapter VI
Of the Component Parts of the Price of Commodities In that early and rude state of society which precedes both the accumulation of stock and the appropriation of land, the proportion between the quantities of labour necessary for acquiring different objects seems to be the only circumstance which can …