Toyko update 3/25: I forgot to mention my two favorite papers from this year’s International Adam Smith Society (IASS) meeting at Waseda University in Tokyo earlier this month. One was “Adam Smith’s theory of music” by Tetsuo Taka (Kyushu University); the other was “Smith’s skepticism about the imitative nature of instrumental music: the unconscious recognition of absolute music” by Eiko Yamamoto (Seikei University), who also performed a number of 18th-century musical compositions on the piano at the banquet on the final night of the Adam Smith Tokyo conference. Alas, neither paper is posted online yet, but I will link to them as soon as they become available.