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According to Wikipedia, Michael Jackson’s “Off the wall” album was released 47 summers ago (on 10 August 1979) by Epic Records and features songwriting contributions from music legends David Foster, Paul McCartney, Rod Temperton, and Stevie Wonder (among others), as well as three … Continue reading →

One of my favorite papers at this year’s Adam Smith conference in Glasgow was Erik W. Matson’s “Minding the Gaps: Reality, Theory, and Policy in Adam Smith”, which will be published in Volume 30 of The Independent Review. In summary, … Continue reading →

After a full day of panels at this year’s Adam Smith conference in Glasgow, I will be watching the Group C stage match between Scotland and Morocco at Boteco do Brasil in the Merchant City tonight.

This time around, the weather in Glasgow is cold (by Florida standards) and rainy, so I am reblogging some pictures from my 2023 visit to Glesga, Scotland’s friendliest city.

I will be attending a joint meeting of British Academy and the International Adam Smith Society (IASS) on Erik W. Matson’s “The World in 1776/2026: The Wealth of Nations at 250” at the University of Glasgow (pictured below) for the … Continue reading →

During my brief stint in London this week (I am now en route to Glasgow by train), I was able to visit the Wallace Collection to see a special exhibition featuring more than 50 original works of art painted by … Continue reading →

To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, I have been featuring each of the sections of Smith’s magnum opus on my blog. Below, for example, is a compilation of my previous blog posts … Continue reading →

That is the title of this beautiful novella by Mark Richard Robinson, who I had the honor of befriending in Broxbourne, England, these past few days. Update (3:00 pm GMT): I have now finished reading the good Reverend Robinson’s poignant … Continue reading →

As a follow-up to my previous two posts (see here and here), I want to pose another question to my fellow admirers and students of Adam Smith, another fundamental “Adam Smith problem,” so to speak. In Book III of The … Continue reading →