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2/14/2021
Smithian Exchange Among Non-Human Animals
February 14, 2021
Smith wrote about the human propensity to "truck, barter, and exchange," but the modern science of animal behavior suggests that we are not exactly alone in this capability.
2/10/2021
What Would Adam Smith Say About Love on Valentine's Day?
February 10, 2021
Remember, lovebirds: You don’t have to think that Adam Smith was cynical about your doe-eyes and snuggles.
2/7/2021
Adam Smith, Monopolies, Intellectual Property, and the Blackest Black
February 7, 2021
What does a recent controversy in the world of art materials illuminate about Adam Smith's perspective on monopolies and intellectual property?
2/3/2021
The Moon Phase Watch and Adam Smith’s Philosophy of History
February 3, 2021
Does Smith's philosophy of history give in to the apocalyptic temptation to "immanentize the eschaton"? A clue it does not is the moon phase watch.
1/31/2021
Dear Adam Smith: First Job Interview
January 31, 2021
Can Adam Smith's advice about language and sympathy help set the novice interviewee at ease?
1/27/2021
Adam Smith, Francis Fukuyama, and the Indignity of UBI
January 27, 2021
UBI does not speak to the demands of dignity, nor to the Smithian needs to be seen and respected.
1/24/2021
What Adam Smith Ate: A Restaurant in Paris
January 24, 2021
1/20/2021
Five Great Books on Adam Smith
January 20, 2021
If you haven't encountered them already, these five books make for great reading on a range of topics related to Smith.
1/17/2021
Bargaining with the Butcher, Baker, and Brewer: A New Look at Smith’s Most Famous Sentences
January 17, 2021
Our desire to persuade each other is not reducible to our pursuit of self-interest in a narrow material sense; it is rather a deep feature of human nature, one we share with the men and women whom we rely on for our food.
1/13/2021
Dear Adam Smith: Impatience with Infants
January 13, 2021
We simply cannot sympathize with an infant as naturally as we would with a person in full command of her faculties, and this can be uncomfortable.
1/10/2021
Profitable Business: Adam Smith’s Moral Assessment
January 10, 2021
What we get in Smith is not a utopian view of profitable business, but a humane and realistic assessment of the power of firms and the markets in which they operate to do good in the world.
1/6/2021
What Adam Smith Ate: Dinner with Ben Franklin
January 7, 2020
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