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Giandomenica Becchio on Feminist Economics
Giandomenica Becchio with Juliette Sellgren March 22, 2024
Rachel Lomasky for AdamSmithWorks November 4, 2019 … every single worker. In addition to the physical limitations which restricted the number of pins a worker could make in a day, it made it difficult for the factory to be adaptive. Division of labor made the factory into software, easily reconfigurable.
David Henderson on Robert Solow
David Henderson with Juliette Sellgren March 15, 2024
From Field to Town and Country
Marko Veckov for AdamSmithWorks Smith’s stadial theory has raised many questions and met with many scholarly challenges. Veckov draws attention to what we can learn from it today. … of the Stadial Model? In the Journal of the History of Economic Thought Michael Munger, Division of Labor, Part 3: The System of Exchange, at AdamSmithWorks Dig deeper into Smith’s text “Of the Natural Progress of Opulence” with our Reading Guide
Brent Orrell and David Veldran for AdamSmithWorks Do improvements in artificial intelligence make the remaining work better for humans or worse? Adam Smith and Karl Marx never wrote about AI but they understood plenty about how changes in work could cause … … 's What would Adam Smith think about "vocations"? Part 1 & Part 2 Sarah Skwire's What Would Adam Smith Think of My Weekend? and Work, with a Side of Yarn Elizabeth M. Hull's Adam Smith and Silas Marner: Heaps of Gold Dear Adam Smith: An Antidote To Torpor
AdamSmithWorks Essays: Top Ten
Christy Lynn for AdamSmithWorks AdamSmithWorks has been posting essays for over three years. Find out about the most popular ideas and authors for our long-form work here. … like this. Do you like lists? We have more. Here's just a few more favorites. Speaking of Smith: Top Ten Posts Suggested Reading: ASW Bibliographies Podcast list lovingly curated for our lovely AdamSmithWorks audience The Women of the Smith Questionnaire
Smith and Marx: Vision and Analysis
Giandomenica Becchio for AdamSmithWorks Karl Marx did work from analytic foundations bequeathed to posterity by Adam Smith, but the two social theorists' visions could hardly be more distinct. … into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Edited by R.H. Campbell and A.S. Skinner. 2 vols. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund. Related Links: What Karl Marx Did and Did Not See in Adam Smith Econlib Biography, Karl Marx Should Karl Marx Be Cancelled?
Brianne Wolf and Christy Lynn Brianne Wolf talks about her recently published paper, "Adam Smith’s Cosmopolitan Liberalism: Taste, Political Economy, and Objectification," her history with Smith's ideas, upcoming projects, and what other academic journal … … of Labor Matter? | Adam Smith Works Adam Smith: Myths and Realities | Adam Smith Works What can Adam Smith teach us about the moral economy of sanctioning oligarchs? | Adam Smith Works Brianne Wolf's Smith Questionnaire (and ALL the Smith Questionnaires)
Adam Smith on the Country-City Debate
What is the "best place" to live- the city or the country? September 23, 2019 by Sarah Skwire for AdamSmithWorks … .” Is Smith contradicting himself?Is the existence of cities good or bad for the country? How does Robert Frost’s “Two Tramps in Mudtime” relate to the point about the country and the city, and work and leisure, in the last paragraph of this piece?
Pete Boettke on Mainline Economics
Peter Boettke with Juliette Sellgren September 29, 2023
Jeremy Lott on Comics, Adam Smith, and More
Jeremy Lott with Juliette Sellgren September 8, 2023
Addressing Problems Rather than Perpetuating Them
Jon Murphy for AdamSmithWorks Questions about how to help workers without harming economic growth were as important in Adam Smith's time as in our own. … Traps with Adam Smith and Gordon Tullock and Teaching Smith in a Modern Law and Economics Course Maryann Keating's Adam Smith on Wage Taxes and Labor Force Participation and Adam Smith on Differential Returns to Labor Dear Adam Smith: First Job Interview
Thelmo Vargas-Madrigal for AdamSmithWorks Costa Rican economist Thelmo Vargas-Madrigal offers three Adam Smith-inspired public finance lessons for modern day policy-makers. … representation of this idea. (c) The actuarial soundness of social security schemes can hardly be achieved by increasing payroll taxes. Contributions from the Government budget have to be sought. Like we say in Spanish: Más claro no canta un gallo!
The Great Antidote: Kenneth Elzinga on Teaching Economics and More - Deep Dive
Kenneth G. Elzinga and Juliette Sellgren Over a friendly dinner on vacation, Kenneth Elzinga and his friend Bill Bright set out to create an economic detective under the pseudonym Marshall Jevons (nods to Alfred Marshall and William Stanley Jevons). Their … … Rauch Supreme Court Case: Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc. :: 551 U.S. 877 (2007) :: Justia US Supreme Court Center Federal Trade Commission Department of Justice, Antitrust Division Walter Adams Resources compiled by Christy Lynn
Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, and David Hume Over an imaginary dinner, the three discuss their views regarding economics and the relationship between Great Britain and the American colonies.
Cartels, Combinations, and The Students’ Dilemma
James Stacey Taylor for AdamSmithWorks "And there’s the catch. If only one student took the exam, then she would be guaranteed 100% on it no matter how well she did. So, the best situation for each student would be for them to be the only one to take the … … 's Drawn to Industry and Idleness: Hogarth and Smith James Stacey Taylor's Tenniel and Smith know the Mad Hatter's topper is more than a silly silk hat Terra Aquia's How to Make Everything Harder? Ignore the Benefits of Division of Labor
with Dylan DelliSanti June 17, 2019
What would Adam Smith think about your iPhone?
with Sarah Skwire July 1, 2019 … of world. (But Smith is definitely right about the pockets. Early watches only took off as fashionable accessories when gentlemen’s waistcoats came into fashion. Suddenly there was a new place for a new pocket…and a desire for something to …
Enrique Guerra-Pujol for AdamSmithWorks Did Adam Smith know what it was like to be in love? Here's a law professor's primer on the evidence. … of facts in civil cases) that Adam Smith knew what it was like to feel passion, and to fall in love. Related Links: What Adam Smith Ate: Toulouse Cassoulet What Adam Smith Ate: Toulouse Sausage and Lentils James R. Otteson, A Brief Biography of Adam Smith
John Burrow for AdamSmithWorks January 20, 2020 Not only was this Stadial Theory of civilization helpful for understanding history and the past, it also allowed Smith to make sense of Scotland’s political, economic, and social transformations in the 18th … … ; History, Progress and Human Nature, ed. Eugene Heath and Vincenzo Merolle, 171-186. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008. [1] See Christopher J. Berry’s Social Theory of the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), 68-70.