In addition to reading Peter L. Bernstein’s Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk (the cover of which is pictured below), now that I’m back home I am preparing a book proposal for Palgrave Macmillan and writing up a new paper on a possible connection between an anonymous pamphlet from 1763 titled Richesses de l’etat and Adam Smith’s magnum opus–specifically, his maxims of taxation in Book 5, chapter 2 of The Wealth of Nations. But this is just a small sample of my scholarly sabbatical activities, I will post further updates soon.