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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
Google Scholar’s contribution to *Die Adam Smith Probleme*
Alternate title: “Die Adam Smith Probleme, nine honorable mentions” My work-in-progress “Die Adam Smith Probleme“, which I am now co-authoring with Salim Rashid, surveys a wide variety of unresolved mysteries surrounding the life and work of Adam Smith. As it … Continue reading
Another Adam Smith mystery: Toulouse, 1764
We know why Adam Smith was in the South of France for most of 1764 and 1765. In summary, the Scottish professor had agreed to tutor a young aristocrat — the soon-to-be 3d Duke of Buccleugh — during the future … Continue reading
How much of The Wealth of Nations was plagiarized?
It seems unlikely that the question [i.e. the charge of plagiarism against Adam Smith] can ever be answered for certain. (Keynes 1938, p. 43) I will be presenting one of my works-in-progress, Die Adam Smith Probleme, at the next meeting … Continue reading
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Repeal the CFR?
I mentioned in my previous post that “I would repeal the entire Code of Federal Regulations root and branch …” In summary, my argument for repealing the CFR is based not on policy but rather on constitutional first principles. Does … Continue reading
Retrodiction markets: the evolution of an idea
Below I describe the development and evolution of my retrodiction market model, beginning in the spring of 2021 up to the present: ACT I: CONSPIRACY THEORY COURTS 1. Spring 2021. In April 2021, I propose a “Conspiracy Theory Court” at … Continue reading
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Rousseau through the eyes of Adam Smith redux
Note: this is part 6 of my review of Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1754) In my previous post (“Rousseau through the eyes of Adam Smith“), I mentioned how Adam Smith’s 1756 Letter-Essay to the Edinburgh Review singles … Continue reading
Rousseau: the first post-modernist?
Note: this is part 3 of my review of Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1754) Thus far, we have surveyed Rousseau’s “Dedication to the Republic of Geneva” as well as the preface to his Discourse on Inequality, so … Continue reading
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Tagged History, jean-jacques-rousseau, Philosophy, political-philosophy
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