I hate to hit the pause button now that I am on a roll, but I will have to take a one-week hiatus from my “Smith in the City” series because my wife and I will be in Mexico City this week for our 10th wedding anniversary, my first trip to “La Ciudad de los Palacios” since my college days. Next week, however, I will resume my Smithian series, picking up just where we left off–with Horace Walpole’s journal entry for March 2, 1766. In the meantime, I have posted the first part of my “Adam Smith in Paris” paper here (via SSRN). The abstract of my paper appears below: