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Sunday song: Koko
🇨🇷 Greetings from under the volcano in La Fortuna, Costa Rica! 🇨🇷 According to Spotify (see here), the sexy song “Koko” by the 27-year-old Puerto Rican singer and songwriter Omar Courtz is one of the most downloaded tunes in the … Continue reading
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Adam Smith, the Don Quijote of economics?
To my North American readers, happy 4th of July! In my previous post, we saw Adam Smith’s scathing critique of farm subsidies. (This critique appears in Additions #8 and #9 (pp. 10-12) of his 1784 pamphlet.) As it happens, the … Continue reading
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Adam Smith’s slam dunk critique of farm subsidies
Nota bene: Today’s post contains another installment of my multi-part review of Adam Smith’s 1784 pamphlet Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions of Dr. Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. … Continue reading
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Tobacco, textiles, and wine: the immortal Adam Smith
Nota bene: This is the next installment of my multi-part review of Adam Smith’s 1784 pamphlet Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions of Dr. Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. … Continue reading
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France, England, and the immortal Adam Smith
Thus far (see here and here), we have studied the first three passages in Adam Smith’s 79-page pamphlet: Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions of Dr. Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth … Continue reading
Revisiting another Adam Smith problem
Moving on (see here), we now turn to the shortest selection in Adam Smith’s 79-page pamphlet: Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions of Dr. Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations … Continue reading
Adam Smith on wealth, power, and the self-correcting nature of markets
Last week (see here and here), I mentioned how Adam Smith had published a 79-page pamphlet in 1784 containing 13 separate inserts or “additions” to the first two editions of The Wealth of Nations (1776, 1778). Of these 13 inserts, … Continue reading
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Some summer readings
In addition to Adam Smith’s Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions of Dr. Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1784), I have read or will be reading the following books:
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Adam Smith’s 1784 pamphlet by the numbers
As I mentioned in my previous post (see here), between the publication of the second and third editions of his Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith published a separate 79-page pamphlet titled Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions … Continue reading
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prior probability 