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Adam Smith, poet?
“Was Adam Smith, secretly, a poet …? [T]here is another Smith, perhaps a more interesting Smith, … one we should like to know more about.” (Rashid 2023, p. 13.) Who was Adam Smith, really? Moral philosopher, law professor, political economist, … Continue reading
*Young Adam Smith*
Was the young Adam Smith really the absent-minded professor he is often caricatured as by many of his biographers? Check out Professor Salim Rashid’s work-in-progress Young Adam Smith (SSRN), which explains why the conventional biographical picture of Adam Smith as … Continue reading
Google Scholar’s contribution to *Die Adam Smith Probleme*
Alternate title: “Die Adam Smith Probleme, nine honorable mentions” My work-in-progress “Die Adam Smith Probleme“, which I am now co-authoring with Salim Rashid, surveys a wide variety of unresolved mysteries surrounding the life and work of Adam Smith. As it … Continue reading
Four additional *Adam Smith problems*
My previous post highlighted an unsolved mystery involving two of the foremost European thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment — Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau — an enigma posed by Paul Sagar in his 2022 book Adam Smith Reconsidered. Specifically, … Continue reading
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Paul Sagar’s Adam Smith Problem
There is more than one “Das Adam Smith Problem.” Case-in-point: Paul Sagar’s 2022 book Adam Smith Reconsidered, especially chapter 3, which poses a new “Adam Smith problem”, one that I had not given much thought before reading Professor Sagar’s work. … Continue reading
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Another Adam Smith mystery: Toulouse, 1764
We know why Adam Smith was in the South of France for most of 1764 and 1765. In summary, the Scottish professor had agreed to tutor a young aristocrat — the soon-to-be 3d Duke of Buccleugh — during the future … Continue reading
How much of The Wealth of Nations was plagiarized?
It seems unlikely that the question [i.e. the charge of plagiarism against Adam Smith] can ever be answered for certain. (Keynes 1938, p. 43) I will be presenting one of my works-in-progress, Die Adam Smith Probleme, at the next meeting … Continue reading
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Friday funnies: Adam Douglas Thompson
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*Frank Ramsey’s Contributions to Probability (and Legal) Theory*
That is the title of my latest article, which was just published in Bocconi Legal Papers; see https://blp.egeaonline.it/it/102/papers. Below is an excerpt with the footnotes omitted: Ramsey developed his new approach to chance in a paper titled Truth and Probability, … Continue reading
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prior probability 