Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

I have been participating in an Adam Smith reading group this winter and have thus been rereading various parts of Adam Smith’s first magnum opus, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS), and I have also been sharing on this blog … Continue reading →

Happy Candlemas! I was honored to attend an activity at last night at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, where Taina Caragol, Kate Clarke Lemay, and Carolina Maestre presented their book 1898: Visual Culture and U.S. Imperialism in the … Continue reading →

I pre-ordered this little book many months ago (hat tip: Tyler Cowen), and my copy has just arrived. Suffice it to say, I will report back soon.

The great Adam Smith identifies three types of civil society in his first magnum opus The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Below is the full passage from Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, Book 2, Section 2, Chapter 3, Paragraphs 1-3: “All … Continue reading →

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“To be deprived of that which we are possessed of, is a greater evil than to be disappointed of what we have only the expectation. Breach of property, therefore, theft and robbery, which take from us what we are possessed … Continue reading →

That is the title of my new paper (preprint available here via SSRN), which will be published in an upcoming issue of History of Economic Ideas, a refereed journal specializing in the history of economic thought. (This is one of … Continue reading →

I haven’t been blogging too much lately because I am busy editing, line by painstaking line, two of my forthcoming papers in order to get them ready for publication: “Adam Smith, David Hume, and Balliol College Conspiracy” and part 1 … Continue reading →

Earlier this month, I wrote up a seven-part survey of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, which is also known as “The Second Discourse”; see links below for a complete compilation of my previous Rousseau posts. Today, however, … Continue reading →