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10/25/2023
Great Antidote Extra: Chelsea Follett on Cities that Changed the World
Janet Bufton for AdamSmithWorks
Some of the most important progress in human history comes through the solutions to lowly problems: Clean water. Clean air. Clean laundry. Light to see by. Access to fresh food. Humble progress is progress.
10/20/2023
Vincent Geloso on Global Inequality
Vincent Geloso with Juliette Sellgren
October 20, 2023
10/17/2023
Vocation: A Cure for Burnout
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 torpor and alienation.
10/16/2023
Adam Smith on Taxation
Thelmo Vargas-Madrigal for AdamSmithWorks
Costa Rican economist Thelmo Vargas-Madrigal offers three Adam Smith-inspired public finance lessons for modern day policy-makers.
10/16/2023
Ideas de Adam Smith en Materia Impositiva
Thelmo Vargas-Madrigal Para AdamSmithWorks
El economista Thelmo Vargas-Madrigal ofrece tres lecciones de finanzas públicas inspiradas en Adam Smith para los tiempos modernos. (Costa Rican economist Thelmo Vargas-Madrigal offers three Adam Smith-inspired public finance lessons for the modern day.)
10/13/2023
Chelsea Follett on Cities that Changed the World
Chelsea Follett with Juliette Sellgren
October 13, 2023
10/06/2023
Lawrence Reed on Best and Worst American Presidents
Lawrence Reed
with Juliette Sellgren
October 6, 2023
10/05/2023
‘Humiliations Galore’: Adam Smith meets Miracle Max
Jordan J. Ballor for AdamSmithWorks
A pivotal scene from
The Princess Bride
illustrates a key Smithian insight.
10/03/2023
The self & sympathy: A brief essay on David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40)
John Alcorn for AdamSmithWorks
Hume’s social psychology undercuts universal moral theories like
Kantianism
and
Utilitarianism.
For Hume, there are circles of moral concerns like family and community and these circles frame and circumscribe morality.
09/29/2023
Pete Boettke on Mainline Economics
Peter Boettke with Juliette Sellgren
September 29, 2023
09/28/2023
Great Antidote Extras: Jeremy Horpedahl on The Real Cost of Thriving Index
Amy Willis for AdamSmithWorks
We might disagree about how many goods and services are
really
necessary for a good life but we should be able to agree about what numbers to use to measure goods and services, shouldn't we?
09/25/2023
Great Antidote Extras: Samuel Gregg on The Next American Economy
Kevin Lavery for AdamSmithWorks
Lavery listens in to Samuel Gregg's
Great Antidote
episode and comes up with questions about how the past shaped our present and could help us to a better future.
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