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How to improve the NBA All-Star game
I agree with loudmouth sports commentator Stephen A. Smith that the NBA All-Star game is a complete embarrassment, but what is to be done? Short of cancelling this joke of a game altogether, why not deduct points when a player … Continue reading
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Two more Adam Smith problems
Note: TMS refers to Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, while WN = The Wealth of Nations I mentioned in a previous post (see here or below) that typing “another Adam Smith problem” into Google Scholar’s search engine generates nine results: … Continue reading
ADAM SMITH TOKYO UPDATE
Based on my own work as well as that of my co-author Salim Rashid, I have made many substantial revisions and corrections to “DIE ADAM SMITH PROBLEME” and have posted an updated draft on SSRN (see here) in preparation for … Continue reading
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Partial Taxonomy of Adam Smith Problems
I have said it before, and I will say it again: there is more than one “Das Adam Smith Problem”! By way of example, below are just a small sample of some of the many unresolved Adam Smith mysteries that … Continue reading
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Additional Adam Smith Problems
Happy Leap Day! In my previous post, I shouted out my colleague and friend, Salim Rashid, for formulating a new Adam Smith problem — or what I now like to call “Salim Rashid’s Adam Smith Problem” — in his work-in-progress … Continue reading
Adam Smith, poet?
“Was Adam Smith, secretly, a poet …? [T]here is another Smith, perhaps a more interesting Smith, … one we should like to know more about.” (Rashid 2023, p. 13.) Who was Adam Smith, really? Moral philosopher, law professor, political economist, … Continue reading
*Young Adam Smith*
Was the young Adam Smith really the absent-minded professor he is often caricatured as by many of his biographers? Check out Professor Salim Rashid’s work-in-progress Young Adam Smith (SSRN), which explains why the conventional biographical picture of Adam Smith as … Continue reading
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