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1/6/2021
What Adam Smith Ate: Dinner with Ben Franklin
January 7, 2020
1/3/2021
Dear Adam Smith: The Distracted Professor
January 3, 2021
Dr. Distracted gets lost in thought, and wants to present himself better.
Can Adam Smith help?
12/30/2020
The Hazards of Ambition
December 31, 2020
Instead of being a blind supporter of today’s morally hazardous consumerism, Smith is perhaps its most astute critic.
12/27/2020
The Bard and The Professor: Adam Smith’s Influence on Robert Burns
December 27, 2020
12/23/2020
What Adam Smith Ate: Christmas Punch
December 23, 2020
Smith would have enjoyed his favorite claret, what we would call Bordeaux today, as well as, perhaps, a Christmas punch.
12/20/2020
Mr. Potter: Man of System
December 20, 2020
Friends of AdamSmithWorks will surely note that the tension between George Bailey and Mr. Potter stems in part from Potter being what Adam Smith calls a
man of system
.
12/16/2020
Adam Smith Wishes You a Mereology Christmas
December 16, 2020
Aristotle’s proposition that individuals belong more to the republic than to themselves folds the part (individual) into the whole (polity). This mereology collapsed, argues Strauss, when people adopted the Christian belief in a personal transcendent destiny and a loyalty to a kingdom beyond this world.
12/13/2020
Happiness in Times of Crisis
December 13, 2020
By François Topino-Lebrun - Public Domain
"In highlighting the anecdote of Pyrrhus and Cineas, Smith moves away from an answer to the happiness question that is merely economic or material."
12/9/2020
Adam Smith Wants you to ENJOY the Holidays
December 9, 2020
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the holidays are coming and the goose is getting…dropped from the menu. Multiply that by all those things you used to do and will not be doing this year, and it all seems rather bleak. But, why? Why aren’t you excited that your forthcoming celebrations are going to be novel and different?
12/6/2020
Dear Adam Smith: The Company Party
December 6, 2020
"Mr. New Employee" has some concerns about the upcoming company party.
Can Adam Smith help???
12/2/2020
What Adam Smith Ate: Voltaire and the Vegetarian Salad
December 3, 2020
11/29/2020
Adam Smith’s Readers in Eighteenth-Century Libraries
November 29, 2020
One way to investigate the broader impact of Smith’s writings is through the lens of eighteenth-century subscription libraries.
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