Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

(Continued from yesterday’s post) Adam Smith’s private pupil at Glasgow, Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice, became ill yet again in the fall of 1760. In a letter (dated November 11, 1760) to Fitzmaurice’s father, Lord Shelburne, Smith writes: “Mr Fitzmaurice being at present … Continue reading →

Act II: Glasgow College (1760) [*] The next direct evidence of Smith’s encounters with the “absurd prescriptions” of doctors are two pieces of private correspondence–one dated March 10, 1760 (Corr. 45); the other, Nov. 11, 1760 (Corr. 52)–both of which … Continue reading →

Act I: Balliol College, Oxford (1744) [*] Adam Smith was enrolled in Balliol College at Oxford University from July 1740 until August 1746. During his Oxford years, the young scholar wrote to his mother on several occasions.[1] Although most of … Continue reading →

By my count, the word “absurd” appears 36 times in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, but for me the most memorable use of this word is when Smith refers to “the absurd prescriptions” of doctors in Book II, Chapter 3 … Continue reading →

Starting tomorrow (16 Sep), I will begin sharing the details of two new scholarly projects that I have been working on these past few weeks. One of my projects explores Adam Smith’s own personal experiences with doctors and the health … Continue reading →

The Public Database of World Predictions (hat tip: Alex Tabarrok) A computational framework for evaluating an edge-integrated, multi-ramp construction model of the Great Pyramid of Giza (via Nature) AI extinction resignation sparks false-flag conspiracy claims (via The Telegraph) Game Theory … Continue reading →

Check out this post by ‘Air Genius’ Gary Leff: “Terrorists Attacked Our Freedoms on 9/11–Then Washington Spent 25 Years Taking More of Them Away“. Today, air-travel passengers in the U.S. are less safe (see here, for example) AND less free … Continue reading →