Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Who was the “lady of Fife” mentioned in my previous post and in Colbert’s letter dated 18 September 1766? Alain Alcouffe and Andrew Moore (2018, 15 n.18) identify this possible love interest as Lady Janet Anstruther (b. 1725, d. 1802), … Continue reading →

Let’s resume my “Adam Smith in Paris” series by introducing an additional piece of evidence, a possible “Smoking Arrow” in the form of a private letter addressed to Smith dated 18 September 1766, a month before the end of Smith’s … Continue reading →

Which one is your favorite, and why?

In a private letter dated 14 July 1794, four years and three days after the death of Adam Smith, Dr James Currie mentions that Adam Smith visited the small town of Abbeville in northwest France. Currie’s letter does not say … Continue reading →

Previously, I described the dramatic transformation in Madame Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni’s attitude toward Adam Smith. (See my post dated 7 October 2021.) But the question remains, Why did she fall for him? Madame Riccoboni, an accomplished actress and novelist, and Doctor … Continue reading →

In his 1995 biography of Adam Smith, Ian Simpson Ross (p. 209 & p. 213) reports that “Smith enjoyed the Paris opera season” and had “attended many plays and concerts, as well as the operas ….” during his 10-month sojourn … Continue reading →

Note: this is the second post in a multi-part series. Most accounts of Adam Smith’s extended stay in Paris (Dec. 1765 to Oct. 1766) emphasize the pivotal role that Paris’s famed philosophical and literary “salons” had on Smith’s intellectual development. … Continue reading →

Now that I have completed my multi-part reviews of the Jack Balkin and Mark Lemley papers, I will be “switching gears”, so to speak, and writing about Adam Smith’s eventful year in Paris — i.e., from late December of 1765 … Continue reading →

The first question forms the title of this recent op-ed in the New York Times by Kate Klonick, a social media expert who is a law professor at St John’s University Law School as well as a fellow at the … Continue reading →

Here is a link to the Tweet thread by @balajis posted below, and here is a link to Alex Tabarrok’s blog post titled “The Lesson of the Spoons” referenced in the Tweet thread. I cannot, however, find any source authored … Continue reading →