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Great Antidote Archive: Sarah Skwire on Pro-Market Literature and Feminism
Juliette Sellgren and Sarah Skwire Literature people and women hate liberty, right? Nope. Sarah Skwire and Juliette Sellgren are here to set the record straight. … being dangerous and destructive for women. You can see much more of Skwire's writing at the Online Library of Liberty's Reading Room. To learn more about the Great Antidote podcast, visit "Introducing The Great Antidote Podcast with Juliette Sellgren"
Adam Smith’s Slips and the End of Othello
Sarah Skwire for AdamSmithWorks Smith’s misrecollection of the end of Othello, then, is very much of a piece with this aesthetic preferences for the smooth, the regular, and the well ordered. … : The Avengers Christy Lynn's Folks is Folks (on Sarah Skwire & William Shakespeare) Lucia Alden’s Macbeth's Ambition and Smith's Words of Warning Richard Gunderman on Adam Smith and (Iago’s) Envy James Hartley’s Smith’s Man of System in Romeo and Juliet.
Smithian Sympathy in the Arabian Nights
by Khalil M. Habib for AdamSmithWorks June 12, 2019
Of the Wages of Labor
Adam Smith Goes to the Movies: The Avengers
by Sarah E. Skwire and Aeon J. Skoble for AdamSmithWorks If Adam Smith were alive today, he’d be just as excited as the rest of us about the release of Avengers: Endgame April 24, 2019 We may not instinctively think of the great 18th century philosopher and father of modern economics as a big fan of superhero movies, but that’s probably because we don’t read his essay “The History of Astronomy”[1] often enough. It is here that Smith’s …
Nothing Useless, Absurd, or Fantastical: Adam Smith on Women's Education
Sarah Skwire for AdamSmithWorks When great thinkers gets things right as often as Adam Smith does, it is often particularly interesting and instructive to think hard about the things they get wrong. Doing this isn’t about downgrading that thinker’s status, catching him in errors that …
LUMOS! Learning Moral Sentiments with Harry Potter
Caroline Breashears for AdamSmithWorks June 2, 2021
Happiness Makes us Human: Hutcheson and Carmichael
Sarah Skwire for AdamSmithWorks October 15, 2020 … read, less often considered, and relegated to the preludes or postludes of books on better-known writers from better-served moments in history. Related Links: Charlotte Thomas, Adam Smith and Aristotle Sarah Skwire, Money and Virtue in the Ancient World
Free Trade in Language: Adam Smith on Words and Wine
Sarah Skwire for AdamSmithWorks Since Smith was clearly at peace with the idea of importing French wines, why does he object to importing French words? … this argument and explored the possibility that, like foreign wine, foreign words enrich a country more than they impoverish it. Related Links: Sarah Skwire, Smith on Rhetoric: Dangerous Clarity Graham McAleer, The Place of Language in Smith's Economics
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.
Of the Causes of Improvement in the productive Powers of Labour, and of the Order according to which its Produce is naturally distributed among the different Ranks of the People #
Adam Smith and the Theater of the Marketplace
by Sarah Skwire for AdamSmithWorks Adam Smith and the Theater of the Marketplace It is something of a critical commonplace to note that Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments [TMS] relies on similes between the theater and the world to make its argument that we can learn to sympathize …
Wonder, Surprise, and Admiration: Reading Smith's Essays on Philosophical Subjects (April 2022)
April, 2022 with Sarah Skwire Adam Smith''s Essays on Philosophical Subjects are unjustly neglected. Their considerations of questions of human creativity are rich and complicated. Smith draws a picture of us as driven by "wonder, surprise, and admiration" as we explore and respond to …
Richard Gunderman for AdamSmithWorks August 10, 2022 "The same envy without which economies cannot fully activate also leads to the corruption and misery of individuals." Gunderman points to Smith (in addition to the Buddha, Socrates, and Jesus) as a … … the greater, and to stray from the path of goodness. Want More? Richard Gunderman's Educational Despotism Sarah Skwire's Adam Smith’s Slips and the End of Othello & Why Mandeville Makes Smith Mad Garth Bond' s Mandeville’s Social Toyman and Social Media
The Place of Language in Adam Smith's Economics
by Graham McAleer for AdamSmithWorks January 9, 2019
Three Cheers for Adam Smith's Cities
Kyle Swan for AdamSmithWorks If we look carefully, we see that Smith praises both town and country living for promoting “independency.” He says that it arose much earlier for those in the city; but, it’s also one of the main attractions of country life. …
Adam Smith Would Not Approve of Logan Roy
Garret Edwards for AdamSmithWorks During Succession’s first season, Adam Smith is explicitly referenced when in a social gathering some guests are discussing the ideas of Smith and Karl Marx. Scotland itself was bound to appear in a later episode when the … … Skwire and Aeon Skoble's Adam Smith Goes to the Movies: The Avengers Joy Buchanan's Freedom and Work in Severance Want to discuss William Shakespeare's work? We have a WHOLE reading group just for that led by Sarah Skwire at the Online Library of Liberty.
Mandeville’s Social Toyman and Social Media
Garth Bond* for AdamSmithWorks ...where Smith invites his reader to reflect sympathetically on their own personal interactions with shop-keepers, Mandeville invokes ugly stereotypes of both the indulgent 1% and of greedy shopkeepers who are simultaneously … … : Too Much of a Good Thing, at the Online Library of Liberty Sarah Skwire, In Praise of Luxury: Hume's 'Of Refinement in the Arts' Erik Matson, Perspectives From Smith on Wealth and Happiness Mandeville: His Life and Work at the Online Library of Liberty