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Adam Smith and the Countess of Boufflers

(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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World Truth League White Paper

Is it possible to test the truth-values of popular or entrenched conspiracy theories without resorting to censorship? To this end, Steve Kuhn and yours truly have just posted our new “World Truth League White Paper” to SSRN. In brief, we … Continue reading

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*The Friedman Doctrine Revisited*

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*

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

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):

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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

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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

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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

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*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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King for a day …

My previous post contained links to my critique of Cass Sunstein’s essay “Why I am a liberal” as well as links to my review of Philip K. Howard’s new book on Everyday Freedom. But both my critique of Sunstein and … Continue reading

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