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Gulliver's Travels: Adam Smith's Favorite Novel
by Shannon Chamberlain for AdamSmithWorks October 30, 2019 Adam Smith got his start as a young, aspiring academic by providing instruction in rhetoric to students in an elective lecture course in Edinburgh in 1748. Readers of the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres—which we have only because the handwritten …
Clarissa Explains It All: Adam Smith and the Eighteenth-Century Novel in Letters
Shannon Chamberlain for AdamSmithWorks December 4, 2019 About halfway through his discussion in The Theory of Moral Sentiments about the obligations that parents and children owe each other, Adam Smith makes an astonishing claim: The poets and romance writers, who best paint the refinements and delicacies of …
LUMOS! Learning Moral Sentiments with Harry Potter
Caroline Breashears for AdamSmithWorks June 2, 2021
Jane Austen's Theory of Moral Sentiments: The Failed Speculator in Persuasion
… Read More? Shannon Chamberlain's Adam Smith Suggests You Read a Romance Novel (And Have a Laugh At Yourself) | Adam Smith Works Brian Murray's Jane Austen's Memorable Con Woman (lawliberty.org) Renee Wilmeth's Adam Smith and Jane Austen | Adam Smith Works
Teaching through the Year: Seasonal Readings and Activities
We're making it easy for you to find seasonally relevant ways to bring Adam Smith and his ideas into your classroom.
Adam Smith Knew Why We’d Love Jane Austen
Cynthia Argentine and Julianna Argentine for AdamSmithWorks "Though Smith died before Austen’s novels were published, his Theory of Moral Sentiments anticipates the reason her books affect us. As Smith says, we take on the feelings we imagine others feel … … Shannon Chamberlain, Jane Austen’s Theory of Moral Sentiments: The Failed Speculator in Persuasion Shannon Chamberlain, Adam Smith Suggests You Read a Romance Novel (and Have a Laugh at Yourself) Sarah Skwire, Sir William Lucas Should Have Read Adam Smith
The Women of the Smith Questionnaire
Christy Lynn for AdamSmithWorks The Smith Questionnaire is a fun way to learn about Adam Smith and those who study and enjoy him. As Women's History month wraps up, take 5-10 minutes to learn a little more from the women of the Smith Questionnaire.
Great Antidote Extras: Cheryl Miller on Hertog and the Humanities
Nancy Vander Veer for AdamSmithWorks Vander Veer listens in and reminds us that learning is more than schooling. She also offers ideas for keeping it up reading and conversation beyond the classroom.
Father's Day Advice from Adam Smith
It’s almost Father’s Day 2022, which I can tell from the proliferation of spam emails reminding me to buy the paternal figures in my life golf clubs and leather goods. Of course, it’s easy to sneer at the slew of commemoration holidays in the spring and …
The Foundation of Jane Eyre’s Moral Education
Ceanna Daniels for AdamSmithWorks How does a child begin a moral education? Daniels suggests Jane Eyre’s reading of history and the Bible give her a good start but much more is required. … of the Old Testament. Want to Read More? Theory of Moral Sentiments Reading Guide for the above quote Shannon Chamberlain's Adam Smith Suggests You Read a Romance Novel (And Have a Laugh At Yourself) Jonathan Jacobs' Adam Smith on Moral Education
#ReadWithMe: Ritchie Robertson’s The Enlightenment Part 4: Sympathy and Sociability
Amy Willis for AdamSmithWorks How do public lectures, salons, and reading narrative fiction influence the Enlightenment?. Amy Wills continues to explore Ritchie Robertson's book in part 4 of her summer #ReadWithMe series.
Smith Snark on François de La Rochefoucauld
John Alcorn for AdamSmithWorks The third entry in a new series on Adam Smith getting snarky. We're looking at people and ideas that Adam Smith disagreed with vehemently. John Alcorn invites us to consider Adam Smith contra François de La Rochefoucauld on …
Great Antidote Extras: Phil Magness on Academic Integrity
Christy Lynn for AdamSmithWorks J.J. Grandville illustration from Swift's Gulliver's Travels Bad practices and bad practitioners give academia and academics a bad name. It's an old problem, perhaps impossible to solve. But, we can do better. The results, …
Smith Snark on Bernard Mandeville
Jimena Hurtado for AdamSmithWorks Adam Smith: Mandeville provocateur. Or was he? Jimena Hurtado looks at what Smith's problem is with private vices and public benefits.
On Gulliver, Swift, and Adam Smith
Alice Temnick for AdamSmithWorks July 27, 2020 Part 1 of a #ReadWithMe Series … of Kings and royals? Or of religion, party prejudice, trade, war and more in the progression of these travels? Related Links: Shannon Chamberlain, Gulliver's Travels: Adam Smith's Favorite Novel Alice Temnick with author Leo Damrosch, AMA on The Club
A First Foray with David Hume's History of England
Christy Lynn for AdamSmithWorks An American dips in to David Hume's History of England and comes up with more questions than answers.
The Poor Man's Son According to Adam Smith and Hilary Mantel
Christy Lynn for AdamSmithWorks Many stories from Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments rightfully linger in readers' memories. The poor man's son is one. Eyes are easily blinded by the dazzles of wealth. The spurs of ambition bite deeply into ourselves …