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I will resume my ongoing series on Adam Smith in my next post; in the meantime, I can vouch for the substance of this tweet as I was one of Rob Harrison’s students at the Yale Law School back in … Continue reading →

Is it possible to use ChatGPT and other large language models to promote critical thinking in higher education? As it happens, I am a member of a five-person team of college professors who have experimented with new ways of using … Continue reading →

I heard this lyrical homage to my home State at Dodger Stadium on Friday evening. (I was born and raised in Los Angeles and attended college at UCSB. #GauchoForLife!) Below is the “super mega mix” version!

“Joint stock companies, established by Royal Charter or by Act of Parliament, differ in several respects, not only from regulated companies, but from private copartneries.” (Smith 1784, p. 58) Thus far (see here and here), we have surveyed the first … Continue reading →

Adam Smith surveys overseas trading companies in the last part of his 1784 pamphlet (Part #13). I went over the first five paragraphs of this part of Smith’s 1784 pamphlet in my previous post. The rest of Smith’s pamphlet is … Continue reading →

Nota bene: I discuss Adam Smith’s first “dire warning” here. As promised (see here and here), I will now turn to the last part of Adam Smith’s 79-page pamphlet (Part #13, pp. 47-79), Additions and Corrections to the First and … Continue reading →

Earlier this month (6-8 July), I had surveyed Part #11 of Adam Smith’s 1784 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 (Smith … Continue reading →

Shout out to my favorite L.A. bookstore, Lost Books (the entrance of which is pictured below), where I found a veritable treasure trove of erudite tomes — listed below in alphabetical order (by author): Nota bene: I will be resuming … Continue reading →

Below are links to some free mathematics textbooks/lecture notes: (hat tips: @pickover, @gemchange_ltd, @LunesDes, and @ParamSiddh)

Bonus link: See also my 2015 paper “Finding Santiago“, where I trace the biographical origins of the legendary protagonist of Ernest Hemingway’s timeless novella The Old Man and the Sea.