Speaking of Smith Archives

Sobre los objetivos de las empresas y de los consumidores

February 22, 2024

"Desde la perspectiva de política pública, la historia ha demostrado que la visión de Karl Marx sobre cómo optimizar el bienestar de la sociedad era errónea, mientras que la de Adam Smith era correcta e inspiradora."

Alice Temnick on Teaching, Learning, and Adam Smith's Education

February 16, 2024

Off the Air But On the Record with Alain Bertaud

February 15, 2024

Marvel at how a conversation about famously disruptive buildings turned into one about Adam Smith and trust in society.

Would Adam Smith Tell Taylor Swift to Attend the Super Bowl?

February 5, 2024

Would Adam Smith advise Taylor Swift to rush back to America after an exhausting concert just to cheer on a man in a football game? Joy Buchanan cheers for Smithian sentiments.

The Liberal Roots of Karl Marx and How He Went Wrong

January 1, 2024

"Both authors agree that economic power does not replace the formal rule of law, but where they differ is that Marx asserts that it leads to an indirect rule over what law does not regulate: the spoils of labor, production and its dividends."

Great Antidote Extras: Phil Gramm on How Government Biases Policy Debate

January 12, 2024

What happens when a politician's economic knowledge comes up against an entrenched special interest? Lots of work for the politician! Kevin Lavery highlights some stories and sober analysis from Phil Gramm's episode of the Great Antidote with Juliette Sellgren.

Taylor Swift & The World’s Most Expensive Cinnamon Rolls

January 3, 2024

Would you bake your new love a $35,000 cinnamon bun?

Macbeth's Ambition and Smith's Words of Warning

December 7, 2023

"Smith posits that the way to avoid ambition and 'live free, fearless, and independent' is to never raise the poisonous chalice of place to one’s lips..."

Addressing Problems Rather than Perpetuating Them

November 29, 2023

Questions about how to help workers without harming economic growth were as important in Adam Smith's time as in our own.

Raising Ghosts at Panmure House

November 20, 2023

Adam Smith (Dougal Lee) and David Hume (Mark Coleman) at Panmure House 2023

Blair Barrows of Adam Smith's Panmure House tell the story behind their production of Enquiry Concerning Hereafter as part of the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Panmure House was the final home of Adam Smith. He lived there between 1778 and 1790.

Adam Smith Comics: Not Only Loved But Lovely

November 16, 2023

"Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely..." Sally Madden illustrates this beloved Smith quotation with humor and fun. Watch out for everyone - worms too!

Smith’s Man of System in Romeo and Juliet

November 13, 2023

Treating people like plants (or chessmen) doesn't work out and the results can be tragic.