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The Lost Year

Posted on August 26, 2025 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Below is an excerpt from Chapter 6 (“Adam Smith’s Lost Year: 1747”) of my forthcoming survey of open Adam Smith problems with Salim Rashid (footnotes are below the fold): “There is a small but significant gap in Adam Smith’s biography: … Continue reading →

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Another Adam Smith problem: Arthur Cole’s puzzle

Posted on August 20, 2025 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

What is “Arthur Cole’s puzzle”? This enigma refers to an obscure but curious Adam Smith problem identified by Arthur H. Cole (pictured here), an economic historian at Harvard and the head librarian of the Harvard Business School back in the … Continue reading →

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Mapping the salons of pre-revolutionary Paris

Posted on May 20, 2025 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

In our previous post, Alain Alcouffe and I mentioned that we would be using an 18th-century map of Paris, the Plan de Turgot (a reproduction of which is pictured below in its final assembled form), to map Adam Smith’s proximity … Continue reading →

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Adam Smith and the Countess of Boufflers

Posted on September 18, 2024 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

(Author’s note: below is Part 3 of my series of blog posts on Adam Smith’s second visit to Paris.) I never saw so much wit, grace, and beauty united in one person. Mme de Boufflers, at the age of thirty, … Continue reading →

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A provocative Parisian pamphlet

Posted on September 14, 2024 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

(Author’s note: below is Part 3 of 3 of my series of blog posts on Adam Smith’s first visit to Paris.) The pamphlet, Richesses de l’etat, took Paris by storm and stirred up an enormous debate about royal finances. (Darnton … Continue reading →

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Smith in the City update

Posted on September 11, 2024 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

I forgot to mention that I have been making some substantial revisions to my paper “Adam Smith in the City of Lights”. Below is my revised introduction: The general outline of Adam Smith’s grand tour has been retold many times, … Continue reading →

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Das Adam Smith Metaproblem?

Posted on July 18, 2024 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

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 … Continue reading →

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The Friedman Doctrine Revisited

Posted on April 4, 2024 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

That is the title of my latest work-in-progress — a compilation of some of my previous blog posts on business ethics, along with some new material. Below is the abstract: In a brief digression in his best-selling book Capitalism and … Continue reading →

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REVISED TABLE OF ADAM SMITH PROBLEMS

Posted on March 12, 2024 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

I presented “DIE ADAM SMITH PROBLEME” at the Adam Smith Tokyo Conference yesterday (11 March 2024) and got lots of feedback. (Shout outs to the International Adam Smith Society for inviting me to present my work, to Waseda University for … Continue reading →

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Table of Adam Smith Problems

Posted on March 7, 2024 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Below the fold is a summary in table form — revised and corrected on 8 March 2024 — of my work-in-progress DIE ADAM SMITH PROBLEME” (with Salim Rashid):