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Nota bene: Below is an excerpt from the antepenultimate chapter (Ch. 11) of my forthcoming book with Salim Rashid, Das Adam Smith Problematic? Ethics, Economics and Society. (Footnotes are below the fold. Also, while we’re on the subject of artificial … Continue reading →

Nota bene: Below is a short excerpt from the concluding section of Chapter 10 of my forthcoming book with Salim Rashid, Das Adam Smith Problematic? Ethics, Economics and Society. (Our conjectures in this excerpt are based in large part on historian … Continue reading →

Nota bene: Below is an excerpt from Chapter 9 of my forthcoming book with Salim Rashid, Das Adam Smith Problematic? Ethics, Economics and Society. (Footnotes are below the fold.) “The first letter Adam Smith wrote after arriving in Paris in … Continue reading →

Nota bene: Below is an excerpt from Chapter 8 of my forthcoming book with Salim Rashid, Das Adam Smith Problematic? Ethics, Economics and Society. (Footnotes are below the fold.) “On the surface, Adam Smith’s years in academia are not all that … Continue reading →

Nota bene: Below is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of my forthcoming book with Salim Rashid, Das Adam Smith Problematic? Ethics, Economics and Society. (Footnotes are below the fold.) Adam Smith left Oxford “for good” in August of 1746,[1] and … Continue reading →

Nota bene: Below is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of my forthcoming book with Salim Rashid, Das Adam Smith Problematic? Ethics, Economics and Society. (Footnotes are below the fold.) “Adam Smith was enrolled in Balliol College for six academic terms: … Continue reading →

In other news, I got to see an amazing rocket launch (Blue Origin’s impressive “New Glenn” rocket) earlier this morning from Cape Canaveral Beach, where I had a direct line of sight to the launch pad. I have posted a … Continue reading →

Nota bene: Below is a short excerpt from Chapter 4 of my forthcoming book with Salim Rashid, Das Adam Smith Problematic? Ethics, Economics and Society: Adam Smith, an up-and-coming professor of jurisprudence and moral philosopher when he published the first … Continue reading →

I will resume my series on my forthcoming book with Salim Rashid, Das Adam Smith Problematic? Ethics, Economics and Society, in my next post. Today, however, I want to honor the brave and idealistic men who tried to liberate their … Continue reading →

I will resume my series on “Das Adam Smith Problematic?” in the next day or two, but in the meantime, I want to commemorate the 280th anniversary of the Battle of Culloden, which took place on this day (16 April) … Continue reading →