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What is liberty? What is the relation between liberty, luxury, and “commercial society” more generally? And in what ways does commerce and the pursuit of luxury promote or hinder liberty? Among other things, I recently read Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on … Continue reading →

Did Charlemagne, King of the Franks, really exist? You tell me! Here is a link to the craziest conspiracy theory that you’ve probably never even heard of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_conspiracy_theory

My first refereed Adam Smith paper — “Adam Smith in Love“, Econ Journal Watch, Vol. 18, No. 1 (2021), pp. 127-155 — has now been downloaded (and presumably read) over 2500 times! Below is some music from Barry White to … Continue reading →

Below is an alternate version of Lee Greenwood’s classic anthem:

FYI: I will be blogging about the following works (beginning with item #1 below) in the days and weeks ahead: Review of Adam Smith’s 1755 “Letter to the Authors of the Edinburgh Review”, available here. Review of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse … Continue reading →

1. AI Regulation (via Elad Blog) 2. Former Google CEO: Companies’ AI guardrails “aren’t enough” to prevent harm (via Axios) 3. The Economic Case for Generative AI and Foundation Models (via a16z) 4. When AI Is Trained on AI-Generated Data, … Continue reading →

I have surveyed this topic before (see here), and so this fascinating essay on “The Future of the Philosophy of Conspiracy Theory: An Introduction to Conspiracy Theory Theory” by Matthew R. X. Dentith, who edited an entire collection of essays … Continue reading →