Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

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 →

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: … Continue reading →

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 →

At the Adam Smith conference in Paris that I attended earlier this month (10 June; see here), historian Emma Rothschild (pictured below, along with the cover of her beautiful 2021 book An Infinite History) brought to my attention the following … Continue reading →

On this day (24 June) in 1724, Johann Sebastian Bach led the first performance of Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam (BWV 7), the third cantata of his chorale cantata cycle, at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig. Bach had composed this great work to … Continue reading →