Speaking of Smith Archives

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.

Vincent Geloso on Global Inequality

Vincent Geloso with Juliette Sellgren

October 20, 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.

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.

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.)

Chelsea Follett on Cities that Changed the World

Chelsea Follett with Juliette Sellgren

October 13, 2023

Lawrence Reed on Best and Worst American Presidents

Lawrence Reed with Juliette Sellgren

October 6, 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.

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.

Pete Boettke on Mainline Economics

Peter Boettke with Juliette Sellgren

September 29, 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?

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.