Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Nota bene: Below is an excerpt from Chapter 8 of my forthcoming book with Salim Rashid, Das Adam Smith Problematic? Ethics, Economics and Society. (Footnotes are below the fold.) “On the surface, Adam Smith’s years in academia are not all that … Continue reading →

Nota bene: Below is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of my forthcoming book with Salim Rashid, Das Adam Smith Problematic? Ethics, Economics and Society. (Footnotes are below the fold.) Adam Smith left Oxford “for good” in August of 1746,[1] and … Continue reading →

Nota bene: Below is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of my forthcoming book with Salim Rashid, Das Adam Smith Problematic? Ethics, Economics and Society. (Footnotes are below the fold.) “Adam Smith was enrolled in Balliol College for six academic terms: … Continue reading →

In other news, I got to see an amazing rocket launch (Blue Origin’s impressive “New Glenn” rocket) earlier this morning from Cape Canaveral Beach, where I had a direct line of sight to the launch pad. I have posted a … Continue reading →

Nota bene: Below is a short excerpt from Chapter 4 of my forthcoming book with Salim Rashid, Das Adam Smith Problematic? Ethics, Economics and Society: Adam Smith, an up-and-coming professor of jurisprudence and moral philosopher when he published the first … Continue reading →

I will resume my series on my forthcoming book with Salim Rashid, Das Adam Smith Problematic? Ethics, Economics and Society, in my next post. Today, however, I want to honor the brave and idealistic men who tried to liberate their … Continue reading →

I will resume my series on “Das Adam Smith Problematic?” in the next day or two, but in the meantime, I want to commemorate the 280th anniversary of the Battle of Culloden, which took place on this day (16 April) … Continue reading →

Nota bene: Below is another short excerpt from Chapter 3 of my forthcoming book with Salim Rashid, Das Adam Smith Problematic? Ethics, Economics and Society. (The works cited are included below the fold.) “[Das Quesnay-Problem] refers to an internal contradiction … Continue reading →

Nota bene: I have blogged about this puzzle before: see here. Below, however, is a revised and corrected excerpt from Chapter 3 of my forthcoming book with Salim Rashid, Das Adam Smith Problematic? Ethics, Economics and Society. (“Cole 1958 refers” … Continue reading →

Happy Monday! Now that we have concluded my detailed chapter-by-chapter survey of The Wealth of Nations (see my post from 11 April), I want to conclude this extended series of elaborate blog posts — by my count, 78 substantive posts … Continue reading →