Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Thanks to the careful work of Sarah Skwire, especially her beautiful draft paper “As If: Clueless about the Invisible Hand”, we have seen how people often add the words “as if” to Adam Smith’s original formulation of the invisible hand … Continue reading →

In my previous post, I took the liberty of cutting-and-pasting the introduction of Sarah Skwire’s beautiful draft paper “As If: Clueless About the Invisible Hand.” In brief, Adam Smith’s invisible hand metaphor is probably the most well-known and popular idea … Continue reading →

Moving on, the third of my three favorite talks at this year’s International Adam Smith Society (IASS) meeting was Sarah Skwire’s Saturday morning presentation (10/16/21) titled “As If: Clueless About the Invisible Hand“; in fact, I loved Dr Skwire’s beautiful … Continue reading →

“A recent work of text mining of Smith’s works … shows that ‘silver’ is the most relevant word in the Wealth of Nations (followed by expense, tax, profit, rent, corn, colonies).” — Paganelli (draft paper) As the quote above indicates, … Continue reading →

As I mentioned in a previous post, Toshiaki Ota’s presentation on “The roles of judges in Adam Smith’s jurisprudence” was one of my favorite works at this year’s meeting of the International Adam Smith Society (IASS). In summary, Professor Ota … Continue reading →

One last postcard from this year’s International Adam Smith Society meeting at the University of Wisconsin. The two pictures in the top row show Professor Dan Klein (front left), Professor Erik Matson (front right), doctoral student Patrick Fitzsimmons (back left) … Continue reading →

I presented my work on “Adam Smith in Love” at the annual meeting of the International Adam Smith Society (IASS), which took place at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. (As an aside, I am currently working on a sequel … Continue reading →

That is the title of this work of “street sign art” (pictured below from various angles) located in Madison, Wisconsin. This whimsical work of art was created by Portland, Maine-based artist Aaron Stephan and consists of a forest of street … Continue reading →