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Jeremy Lott on Comics, Adam Smith, and More

Jeremy Lott with Juliette Sellgren September 8, 2023

Great Antidote Extras: Jeremy Lott on Comics, Adam Smith, and More

Christy Lynn for AdamSmithWorks Jeremy Lott talks about his hopes for his kids, finding meaningful projects, his favorite projects, and lots of Adam Smith.

Adam Smith Comics: What Smith Said

Douglas Curtis and Jeremy Lott What people think Adam Smith meant and what Adam Smith actually said aren't always the same thing. Curtis and Lott create a scene many Smith fans have likely dreamed of. … Race. Paula Richey and Jeremy Lott's AdamSmithComics: The Opening of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Butcher, The Baker, and the Brewer Jason Meadows and Jeremy Lott's Adam Smith Comics: Trinkets of Frivolous Utility and The Boy Who Loved to Play

Adam Smith Comics: Science is the Great Antidote

Douglas Curtis and Jeremy Lott "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition." … and Jeremy Lott's Adam Smith Comics: The Invisible Hand and The Man of System Paula Richey and Jeremy Lott's AdamSmithComics: The Opening of The Theory of Moral Sentiments Jason Meadows and Jeremy Lott's Adam Smith Comics: Trinkets of Frivolous Utility

Adam Smith Comics: The Butcher, The Baker, and the Brewer

Paula Richey and Jeremy Lott How does an economist explain the glory of food trucks to a curious kid—at bedtime? … Comics: The Invisible Hand, The Man of System, and Science is the Great Antidote Paula Richey and Jeremy Lott's AdamSmithComics: The Opening of The Theory of Moral Sentiments Jason Meadows and Jeremy Lott's Adam Smith Comics: Trinkets of Frivolous Utility

Adam Smith Comics: The Race

Douglas Curtis and Jeremy Lott Races must be won with virtue if you want the spectators to cheer. … , and Science is the Great Antidote Paula Richey and Jeremy Lott's AdamSmithComics: The Opening of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Butcher, The Baker, and the Brewer Jason Meadows and Jeremy Lott's Adam Smith Comics: Trinkets of Frivolous Utility

Adam Smith Comics: The Boy Loved To Play

Jason Meadows and Jeremy Lott One of the major benefits of the division of labor is breaking down complex processes into simple ones, then regular people can find improvements in the system. And maybe even spend more time fishing. … is the Great Antidote, and The Race. Paula Richey and Jeremy Lott's AdamSmithComics: The Opening of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Butcher, The Baker, and the Brewer Jason Meadows and Jeremy Lott's Adam Smith Comics: Trinkets of Frivolous Utility

Adam Smith Comics: Man of System

Douglas Curtis and Jeremy Lott "[The Man of System] seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess–board." … impress upon it. (TMS VI.ii.2.17) Want More? Douglas Curtis and Jeremy Lott's Adam Smith Comics: The Invisible Hand Paula Richey and Jeremy Lott's AdamSmithComics: The Opening of The Theory of Moral Sentiments Teacher Resource for a Man of System Activity

Adam Smith Comics: Trinkets of Frivolous Utility

… and Silas Marner: Heaps of Gold Want to learn more from comics? Douglas Curtis and Jeremy Lott's Adam Smith Comics: The Invisible Hand and The Man of System Paula Richey and Jeremy Lott's AdamSmithComics: The Opening of The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Adam Smith Comics: The Opening of The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Paula Richey and Jeremy Lott There are many famous first lines from novels. We think Adam Smith's philosophical opening is just as deserving of recognition. … , is not altogether without it. Want More? Douglas Curtis and Jeremy Lott's Adam Smith Comics: The Invisible Hand Edward J. Harpham's Sympathy, Fellow-Feeling, and the Imagination Lauren Hall's Adam Smith, Sympathy, and Spontaneous Social-Moral Order

Adam Smith Comics: Wonder, Surprise, and Admiration

Douglas Curtis and Jeremy Lott Where does inquiry begin? Before Adam Smith becomes the "father of economics" he looks at the stars, reads Isaac Newton, and wonders about the nature of the world and the discovery of truth. Get a glimpse here.

Adam Smith Comics: The Invisible Hand

Douglas Curtis and Jeremy Lott Have you ever wondered what an invisible hand looks like?

Wealth of Nations Comics

Christy Lynn for AdamSmithWorks We're not sure if Adam Smith could have imagined his words being turned into comics but we hope he would get a chuckle and maybe even a new idea from them if he could see them. … Sally Madden Adam Smith Comics: The Butcher, The Baker, and the Brewer Paula Richey and Jeremy Lott Adam Smith Comics: The Boy Loved To Play Jason Meadows and Jeremy Lott Adam Smith Comics: Science is the Great Antidote Douglas Curtis and Jeremy Lott

Activity: Commerce and care

A comic strip to spark discussion of Adam Smith's "the butcher, the brewer, and the baker", and of how our care for each other is affected by money. “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 …

Division of Labor Toolkit

Tackling the division of labor in your classroom? Let us help you start with Adam Smith.

Adam Smith on Cost and Utility

De-Xing Guan for AdamSmithWorks "That Smith had emphasized cost is a consensus among economists, but that Smith emphasized utility might be a misunderstanding. In fact, Smith had put utility away in both his books for different reasons."

Adam Smith and Owning It with The Mystery of the Invisible Hand

Lauren Heller for AdamSmithWorks How can teachers introduce their students to Adam Smith's insights with less eye rolling and more engaged learning? Lauren Heller suggests using a little mystery, The Mystery of the Invisible Hand by Marshall Jevons, that … … charm your students, eye rolls accepted. Want More? You can purchase the book! Listen to a Great Antidote podcast featuring Kenneth Elzinga where he talks about the books and many other things A more traditional review of the book by Jeremy Lott

Adam Smith Helps Andrew Smith Explain Labor Markets

Andrew Smith for AdamSmithWorks "It’s Adam Smith’s 'Invisible Hand' at work - by acting to satisfy our own gain, we direct our work that produces the greatest value not just to ourselves, but to society." … : A New Look at Smith’s Most Famous Sentences Paula Richey and Jeremy Lott's Adam Smith Comics: The Butcher, The Baker, and the Brewer Garret Edwards' Competition as a Discovery Procedure: Smith, Hayek and Leoni Peter Foster's Adam Smith's Invisible Hand

Adam Smith Comics: How The Theory of Moral Sentiments Begins

Sally Madden for AdamSmithWorks "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others..." Thus, Adam Smith beings his Theory of Moral Sentiments and artist Sally Madden … … and editor Jeremy Lott can be found here: The Opening of The Theory of Moral Sentiments More on Smithian Sympathy? Edward J. Harpham's Sympathy, Fellow-Feeling, and the Imagination Lauren Hall's Adam Smith, Sympathy, and Spontaneous Social-Moral Order

Adam Smith Comics: Not From Benevolence

Sally Madden for AdamSmithWorks Though benevolence and charity are good and necessary things, they are not how most wants can be met. Even beggars must trade.