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The herring subsidy scam
Happy birthday, Adela! (Also, my blog is 13 years old today, 6 July!) As I mentioned at the end of my previous Adam Smith post (see here), Smith devotes Addition #11 (pp. 13-22) of his 1784 pamphlet to the herring … Continue reading
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Sunday song: Koko
🇨🇷 Greetings from under the volcano in La Fortuna, Costa Rica! 🇨🇷 According to Spotify (see here), this sexy song, by the 27-year-old Puerto Rican singer and songwriter Omar Courtz, is one of the most downloaded tunes in the Central … 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 fifth 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
Nota bene: Today’s post contains the fourth installment of my multi-part review of 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 … Continue reading
Revisiting another Adam Smith problem
Nota bene: Today’s post contains the third 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 … 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 “additions and corrections” to the first two editions of The Wealth of Nations (1776, 1778). Of these 13 additions/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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prior probability 