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Demand-Side Self-Interest, Part 2
Alex Aragona for AdamSmithWorks "the demand side of the market is at its best when marketplaces of ideas and association are alive and well as a driving force behind patterns and trends." … Robson’s Profitable Business: Adam Smith’s Moral Assessment Richard McKenzie’s Adam Smith: Myths and Realities, Myth 3: Adam Smith Argued that Markets Would Be Driven Exclusively by the Likes of Gordon Gekko For Teachers: What Would Adam Smith Say?
A Literal versus Historical Reading of Adam Smith
Jacob Soll for AdamSmithWorks January 19, 2023 … at the University of Southern California. His many additional publications include The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations (2014) and The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System (2010.)
Kwok Ping Tsang for AdamSmithWorks September 8, 2021 … (1976) [1759]. The Theory of Moral Sentiments, eds A.L. Macfie & D.D. Raphael, Oxford: Clarendon Press. Smith, Adam (1979) [1776]. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, eds R.H. Campbell & A.S. Skinner, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Adam Smith’s Synergistic Moral Authorizations
Erik W. Matson for AdamSmithWorks Matson explains Adam Smith's moral authorizations of the pursuit of honest income and the presumption of liberty. "One of the patron saints of the Great Enrichment, Smith teaches how we do our part in serving the good of … … George Mason University, in association with the Mercatus Center. In the program, they study big ideas in jurisprudence, politics, ethics, and economics as they were pursued during the original arc of liberalism, especially in the 18th century in Britain.
Review: Skjönsberg on Sagar's Adam Smith Reconsidered
Max Skjönsberg for AdamSmithWorks Conjectural Historian? Moral Philosopher? Political Economist? What is and should be Adam Smith's place in the history of ideas? June 29, 2022 … which deals with specific policies, history, general principles as well as the human condition at large. While doing justice to this complexity, the power of Sagar’s scholarship shows especially why we must take Smith seriously as a political philosopher.
Skjönsberg on Sagar's Adam Smith Reconsidered
Max Skjönsberg for AdamSmithWorks Conjectural Historian? Moral Philosopher? Political Economist? What is and should be Adam Smith's place in the history of ideas? June 29, 2022 … which deals with specific policies, history, general principles as well as the human condition at large. While doing justice to this complexity, the power of Sagar’s scholarship shows especially why we must take Smith seriously as a political philosopher.
A Brief Biography of Adam Smith
by James R. Otteson for AdamSmithWorks … on 17 July 1790 at the age of 67 and is buried in the Canongate cemetery off High Street in Edinburgh. [1]Throughout both of Smith’s two books, he uses masculine pronouns. In light of that, and not to beg any questions, I adopt a similar convention.
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Facing Up To Oppression: Adam Smith and the Question of Reparations
Remy Debes for AdamSmithWorks September 30, 2020 … The Economics of Forced Labor,” (Geneva: International Labour Organization, 2014 ).↩ Knud Haakonssen, “The Lectures on Jurrisprudence,” in Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy, Ed. Ryan Hanley (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016) p. 56.↩
Doing Good through Honest Commerce: Adam Smith and Joseph Butler
Erik Matson for AdamSmithWorks November 18, 2021 Honest commerce serves our own interests. But how does it relate to the duties of beneficence or serving the good of others?
Hidden Revolutionaries: Tristram Shandy and Adam Smith
James E. Hartley for AdamSmithWorks Modern readers can easily forget how revolutionary ideas from the past were. Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (and James E. Hartley) are here to remind you. … . Want to read more? James E Hartley's "Can Sober Smithians Soften Polarized Partisans?" Amy Willis' #ReadWithMe: Ritchie Robertson’s The Enlightenment: Science Goes Public Craig Smith's A Hotbed of Genius: An Introduction to the Scottish Enlightenment
The Invisible Hand, Spontaneous Order, and a Pizza
How is an economy organized? And what can Adam Smith- and a pizza- teach us? Lesson Description “He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By …
Adam Smith and the U.S. Constitution
In this lesson, students read and discuss an essay by the Nobel Prize-winning economist Douglass North. They learn how Adam Smith’s ideas influenced the thinking of the Founders who wrote the U.S. Constitution. Next, the students work in groups to do an … … (7:37) Division of Labor (8:51) Sympathy (8:53) The Role of Authority (9:11) Full Feature (40:43) The Free Market video reinforces Smith’s views on mercantilism and free trade. The Role of Authority video features Smith’s view on the role of government.
What Adam Smith Ate: Fresh Dairy Cheese
Renee Wilmeth for AdamSmithWorks "Once everyone was paid wages in real money, Smith noted everyone benefits '…when barter ceases and money has become the common instrument of commerce.'" … Wilmeth's What Adam Smith Ate: Ice Cream More from AdamSmithWorks Paul Schwennesen's The Future of Farmers – Adam Smith Weighs In Alex Aragona's Are the Interests of Those Who Live by Profit Ours? and Adam Smith and the Costs of the Division of Labor
Great Antidote Extras: Michael Cannon on Medicare
Christy Lynn for AdamSmithWorks (Sing to the tune of "There was an old woman who swallowed a fly") There was a tax change that led to a new program; There was a new program that lead to new regulations; There were new regulations that now costs $4 … … of Liberty Eric Topol on the Power of Patients in a Digital World and Becky Liddicoat Yamarik on Palliative Care and End-of-Life Medical Issues and Vivian Lee on the Long Fix on EconTalk Amy Willis’ Thinking About Health - An EconTalk Playlist on EconLib
Baron de Montesquieu and Adam Smith: Equivalents or Complements?
Henry C. Clark for AdamSmithWorks March 15, 2023 … : Oxford University Press, 1978; repr. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1982), 185.↩ Daniel B. Klein, “Adam Smith’s Rebuke of the Slave Trade,” The Independent Review, 25, no. 1 (Summer, 2020):91-98, esp. 97-98, citing Clarkson’s 1808 history of abolitionism.↩
Smith and Aristotle on Owning and Giving
Richard Gunderman for AdamSmithWorks April 10, 2024 Any social system that foments greed at the expense of the generosity is ruining individual human lives and those individuals' communities. … the impulse that a good community will cultivate. Any social system that, whether by law or by custom, would foment greed at the expense of the generosity of its members is, in a sense, ruining human life at both the individual and communal levels.
Essential Words in—and not in—Adam Smith's Essential Works
Caleb Petitt and Daniel Klein for AdamSmithWorks 290 vs 0. That's the tally between the mentions of "sympathy" in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments vs his Wealth of Nations. Caleb Petitt and Daniel Klein keep count on this and much more. "The …
Adam Smith, Scientist and Evolutionist: Part 3
Vernon Smith for AdamSmithWorks March 20, 2019
Adam Smith in Hispanic America in the 19th century
by Jimena Hurtado for AdamSmithWorks June 26, 2019 … America, 1780-1830”, Journal of Political Economy, 65:2, pp. 104-125. Trincado, E. (2015), “The translation into Spanish of the Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith” R.P. Hanley (guest ed.), F. Forman (ed.), The Adam Smith Review, 8, pp. 37-52.