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Happy Bastille Day, though I confess that I am rooting for España in today’s World Cup semi-final match in Arlington, Texas! Now, picking up where we left off in my previous post, below is a comprehensive summary of Adam Smith’s … Continue reading →

Bonus link: “Laws of the Game” (official rulebook of football/soccer). Bonus link #2: “In the United States, Every World Cup Team Is a Home Team” (NYT)

Nota bene: I will resume my series of blog posts on Adam Smith’s 1784 pamphlet on Monday, 13 July. On this day (10 July) in 1962, the world’s first telecom satellite, Telstar 1, was launched by NASA from the Cape … Continue reading →

I concluded my survey of Addition #11 of Adam Smith’s 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 (1784) in my previous post. … Continue reading →

Thus far this week (see here and here), we have been rehearsing Adam Smith’s sundry arguments against “the herring bounty scam” (my term) on pages 13 to 22 (Addition #11) of his 1784 pamphlet Additions and Corrections to the First … Continue reading →

Nota bene: I credit my colleague and friend John Alcorn with the idea of a “negative invisible hand”. As I mentioned in my previous post, Addition #11 of Adam Smith’s 1784 pamphlet provides many reasons why the herring bounty is … Continue reading →

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 →

🇨🇷 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 →