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The best and most conplete website on all things Adam Smith — Adam Smith Works or ASW for short — has just published my “Plea to Adam Smith Scholars“! (Previously, ASW published my synopsis on “Adam Smith’s Lost Loves.”)

I mentioned in a previous post (see here) that I was hoping to complete by 8 August the first draft of a book-length manuscript that I have been working on for some time. The good news is that I am … Continue reading →

Shout to the editors of The Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice for selecting my forthcoming academic article “Adam Smith’s Blind Spot” as part of the Editors’ Choice collection for the journal. The collection consists of six research papers … Continue reading →

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FYI: “Buena Vista Social Club” is a musical production that had an off-Broadway run at the Atlantic Theater Company in 2023 and then transferred to Broadway in 2025, opening at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The musical is set in Havana and spans from the … Continue reading →

Why have so many aviation disasters occured on this day (9 August) in history? Via Wikipedia; links in the original:

According to Wikipedia (footnotes omitted; links in the original), “Rififi (French: Du rififi chez les hommes) is a 1955 French crime film adaptation of Auguste Le Breton‘s novel of the same name. Directed by American blacklisted filmmaker Jules Dassin, the film stars Jean Servais as the aging gangster … Continue reading →