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08/01/2021
Plato, Adam Smith, and the Good Life
Kevin Stucker for AdamSmithWorks
Plato and Adam Smith did not see eye to eye on private property or the virtue of commerce. But as Kevin Stucker shows, the two philosophers' thoughts on what makes "the good life" have intriguing similarities.
07/28/2021
Reflections on Smith’s Sympathy and the Dread of Death
Edward J. Harpham for AdamSmithWorks
The grave of Adam Smith in Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh.
According to Smith, we sympathize not only with living human beings, but also with the dead. But as Professor Harpham of the University of Texas at Dallas explains, we sympathize with the dead in a very peculiar way.
07/25/2021
Ferguson on the Advancement of Civil and Commercial Arts
Amy Willis for AdamSmithWorks
Part IV of a five-part #ReadWithMe on Adam Ferguson’s
An Essay on the History of Civil Society.
07/20/2021
Even Homer Nods: My Line-edits to The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Daniel B. Klein for AdamSmithWorks
July 21, 2021
"Even Homer nods. That is, even the wisest and most perspicacious authors make mistakes." In this post, Klein unpacks some of Smith's
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07/14/2021
Adam Smith—Abducted!
Renee Wilmeth for AdamSmithWorks
Read about Adam Smith's abduction in infancy, and learn how to cook a Roma-style beef stew.
07/11/2021
Human Action, But Not Human Design
Amy Willis for AdamSmithWorks
Part III of a Five-Part #ReadWithMe of Adam Ferguson’s
An Essay on the History of Civil Society.
07/05/2021
How Rude: Adam Ferguson on Civilization
Amy Willis for AdamSmithWorks
Part II of a Five-Part
#ReadWithMe
of Adam Ferguson’s
An Essay on the History of Civil Society
07/01/2021
July 4th: One Piece of Our Founding Trilogy
Thomas Koenig for AdamSmithWorks
We should not view the three holidays of April 9th, Juneteenth, and July 4th as wholly distinct occasions, but rather as three parts of a coherent American whole.
06/23/2021
What Adam Smith Ate: Sugar Lumps and Strawberry Fool
Renee Wilmeth for AdamSmithWorks
Learn about Smith's sugar-lump habit, and how to make the eighteenth-century English equivalent of strawberry shortcake, "Strawberry Fool."
06/20/2021
Moral Sentiments, Active and Passive
Daniel B. Klein
for AdamSmithWorks
June 21, 2021
Klein walks us through Adam Smith's implicit distinction between active and passive moral sentiments.
06/16/2021
What Makes a Human?
Amy Willis for AdamSmithWorks
Part 1 of a #ReadWithMe of Adam Ferguson’s
An Essay on the History of Civil Society.
06/13/2021
Sympathy and Spectatorship in Adam Smith: A Collection
Kevin Stucker for AdamSmithWorks
One of Liberty Fund's 2021 Summer Scholar Interns compiles a list of essential readings on Adam Smith and his core concepts of sympathy, spectatorship, and virtue.
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