The photo below was taken at the Tahai Ceremonial Complex on Easter Island.🗿
I presented Die Adam Smith Probleme — a burgeoning work-in-progress that I have co-authored with Salim Rashid, who wrote The Myth of Adam Smith (available here) — at a special joint session of the History of Economics Society (HES) and International Adam Smith Society (IASS) in Santiago de Chile earlier this week. In brief, the premise of our work is that there is more than one “Adam Smith problem”; cf. the so-called Das Adam Smith Problem of lore.
Our thesis is that there are many Adam Smith problems! But how many? The meta-problem we are currently grappling with is this: how should we define what a “problem” is, or in the alternative, what criterion (or set of criteria) should we use to decide which problems get included in our global table of Adam Smith problems? Or as our colleague and friend John Berdell observed after I presented the paper: “There are potentially as many ‘Adam Smith problems’ as there are papers on Adam Smith”.
Suffice it to say, Salim and I will give these difficult questions some additional thought; in the meantime, I will assemble the rest of the feedback we received at the special session and report back soon.
Below is the Tweet version of my joint paper with the formidable Salim Rashid, Die Adam Smith Probleme. (I will have more to say about our work in the next day or two; in the meantime, shout outs to Evandro Barbosa, David Batt, John Berdell, David M. Levy, Mark Rathbone, and Geoffrey Sayre-McCord for their comments and questions.)
I overheard this classic the other day somewhere along Avenida Santa Fe in Buenos Aires, a song I had not heard in years! It’s the first track on Christian Castro’s 1992 debut solo album Agua Nueva (see here or here), and boy, does this melancholic ballad bring back some memories …
Greetings from South America! I will be presenting an updated version of my co-authored paper “Die Adam Smith Problem” (with Salim Rashid, Illinois) on Monday morning, July 15, at a joint meeting of the History of Economics Society (HES) and International Adam Smith Society (IASS) at the Universidad de Desarrollo in Santiago de Chile. (Here is the conference program.) In the meantime, I have posted the revised draft of the paper to SSRN; see here.
This “Thank you for your thank you card” is something, I believe, my beloved Jorge Luis Borges would have loved!
On this day (11 July) in 1804, an early-morning duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton took place. To commemorate this fateful moment in North American history, I am posting below some historic odds and ends: a YouTube video showcasing the actual pistols used in the duel; a TikTok video featuring Hamilton Park in Weehawken, N.J., where this famous duel took place; and the song “Ten Duel Commandments”. P.S.: The last duel to take place in Argentina occurred in 1968! (See here and here; second link in Spanish.)
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