Speaking of Smith Archives

What Adam Smith Ate (& Drank!): Claret, Part 2

Renee Wilmeth for AdamSmithWorks

Adam Smith knew first-hand about the Bordeaux wine growing region and he factored his knowledge of wine and agriculture into An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

What Adam Smith Ate (& Drank!): Claret

Renee Wilmeth for AdamSmithWorks

"Smith’s use of wine to demonstrate everything from supply and demand, costs of goods, duties, and tariffs arguably made him the first wine economist tracking values, appreciation, and retail prices."

Yesim Sayin on the DC Life and Policy

Yesim Sayin with Juliette Sellgren

May 12, 2023

Adam Smith Comics: Man of System

Douglas Curtis and Jeremy Lott

"[The Man of System] seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess–board."

Adam Smith Comics: The Opening of The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Paula Richey and Jeremy Lott

There are many famous first lines from novels. We think Adam Smith's philosophical opening is just as deserving of recognition.

Stephanie Slade on Fusionism

Stephanie Slade with Juliette Sellgren

May 5, 2023

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 Roy clan visits Dundee for a triumphal celebration of Logan Roy’s life achievements...It is also a commentary on power and corruption...

Great Antidote Archive: Ed Glaeser on the Unseen Beauty of Cities

Janet Bufton for AdamSmithWorks

Glaeser contends that cities allow us to be more human, because of what we might phrase as, on this site, a natural propensity to share, borrow, and collaborate with one another.

Adam Smith Comics: The Invisible Hand

Douglas Curtis and Jeremy Lott

Have you ever wondered what an invisible hand looks like?

Samuel Gregg on The Next American Economy

Samuel Gregg with Juliette Sellgren

April 28, 2023

Great Antidote Extras: Scott Lincicome on the New American Worker

Christy Lynn for AdamSmithWorks

Scott Lincicome and host Juliette Sellgren talk about the range of policies that are considered “pro-worker” and how that range is often artificially narrowed. They explore the challenges of messaging and suggest possible solutions.

Adam Smith Stories: Too Interesting to be Omitted

Christy Lynn for AdamSmithWorks

Learn more about the one incident from Smith's childhood that has made it through the veils of time: his abduction and rescue from when he was four years old.