Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

I found this thread on Twitter to be helpful (see below). PS: I absolutely positively refuse to call Twitter “X”, and I dislike hate everything that Elon Musk has done to this once glorious platform. I have even muted that … Continue reading →

Here, I will review the next two chapters of Paul Sagar’s 2022 book Adam Smith Reconsidered, beginning with Chapter 3, which is titled “Smith and Rousseau, after Hume and Mandeville” — four of my favorite 18th-century figures! The main subject … Continue reading →

Still a great song! Happy New Year!! Bonus ballad below the fold:

Happy New Year! Today, I will review Chapter 2 of Paul Sagar’s 2022 book Adam Smith Reconsidered. This chapter — titled “Domination, Liberty, and the Rule of Law” — is the most lengthy part of Sagar’s work, but it is … Continue reading →

For once, I agree with Antonio Brown! See also here. (Or are the conspiracy theories true, i.e. are the outcomes of pro games scripted?)

Happy New Year’s Eve, loyal readers! Here, I will review Chapter 1 of Adam Smith Reconsidered, which is titled “Commercial Society, History, and the Four Stages Theory”. In brief, from what I can tell, Professor Sagar has two goals in … Continue reading →

This is part 1 of my review of Adam Smith Reconsidered. To begin, two things about the Introduction to Paul Sagar’s beautiful book caught my attention: (1) Professor Sagar’s striking but simple solution to something called “Das Adam Smith Problem” … Continue reading →

Thus far this week I have written up and posted several short reviews (i.e. “micro reviews”) of some of the works that I have been reading this holiday season. The last book on my list, however — Paul Sagar’s new … Continue reading →

Given my previous work on Adam Smith and his extended visit to the City of Light in 1766 (see especially here and here), I decided to give Robert Darnton’s new book The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 a go. Darnton, a … Continue reading →