“Is any resentment so keen as what follows the quarrels of lovers, or any love so passionate as what attends their reconcilement?” (Adam Smith, The History of Astronomy, Section 1)

Was Adam Smith speaking from personal experience when he posed the above questions? Either way, I will resume my series on the “Immortal Adam Smith” soon; in the meantime, what better way of celebrating Saint Valentine’s Day than by revisiting my 2021 Econ Journal Watch paper “Adam Smith in Love“!

