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Juliette Sellgren and David Beito
Not often do we find people who make the case for how race, liberty, and equality belong together. Even less often do we find them making arguments in the height of racially and economically troubled times. And EVEN LESS do we find audio clips of them … … to the Great Antidote Podcast. It means a lot. The Great Antidote is sound engineered by Rich Goyette. If you have any questions, any guests or topic recommendations, please feel free to reach out to me at great antidote@libertyfund.org. Thank you.
Juliette Sellgren and Paul D. Mueller
What does it mean for something to be ESG when two of those words are adjectives and one is a noun? I mean think about it. “Environmental, social, and governance” doesn’t really describe anything. It’s also a good example of cacophony. So can someone … … listening to The Great Antidote Podcast means a lot. The Great Antidote is sound engineered by Rich Goyette. If you have any questions, any guests or topic recommendations, please feel free to reach out to me at Great antidote@libertyfund.org. Thank you.
Yuval Levin on The American Covenant
Juliette Sellgren and Yuval Levin
Remembering and embracing the spirit upon which America was founded—one of intellectual and political dynamism—is key to striking the balance between life, politics, and disagreement that has felt so off-kilter recently. … listening to The Great Antidote Podcast means a lot. The Great Antidote is sound engineered by Rich Goyette. If you have any questions, any guests or topic recommendations, please feel free to reach out to me at great antidote@libertyfund.org. Thank you.
Jacob Levy on Smith, Hayek, and Social Justice
Juliette Sellgren and Jacob Levy
The title of this episode might confuse you: what on earth do Adam Smith and F. A. Hayek have to say about social justice? A surprising amount, given how much we talk about it! … listening to The Great Antidote Podcast means a lot. The Great Antidote is sound engineered by Rich Goyette. If you have any questions, any guests or topic recommendations, please feel free to reach out to me at great antidote@libertyfund.org. Thank you.
Sandra Peart on Ethical Quandaries and Politics Without Romance
Juliette Sellgren and Sandra Peart
One way to think about economics is to start with scarcity and devise a system around it. And then there's the Virginia School. Not only can this school provide a more interesting avenue for exploring the human condition, it's a model of human learning … … listening to The Great Antidote Podcast means a lot. The Great Antidote is sound engineered by Rich Goyette. If you have any questions, any guests or topic recommendations, please feel free to reach out to me at Great antidote@libertyfund.org. Thank you.
"Saving Adam Smith" Saves My Economics Class
Leah T. Kilfoyle
June 19, 2020 Saving Adam Smith hit the bullseye for my most recent search for a book that not only covers a number of my state’s standards, but demystifies the broader understanding of Adam Smith’s economics. … there be another interruption to the school year. Editor's Note: Leah recently led the AdamSmithWorks online reading group on Wight's book. After the discussion ended, ASW's Amy Willis recorded this AMA with author Jonathan Wight: youtube:7-PRrILaOfc
On Knowing Good Character: A Comparison of Adam Smith and Confucius
Brennan McDavid
March 2, 2023 Both Confucius and Smith conceived of good character as being much more than the possession of a single morally good disposition. But the discernment is difficult and shows a difference between the two thinkers.
Can Sober Smithians Soften Polarized Partisans?
James E. Hartley
January 26, 2022 Once the body politic has absorbed the slogans, the stage is set for a renewal of polarization. Don’t you want it to be “Morning in America?” Once this great beast of public expectations has been aroused, the center can no longer hold. …
Lovers need Smith's Impartial Spectator too.
Carly Jackson
Adam Smith's impartial spectator plays Cupid in one of Jane Austen's greatest novels. Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett reform themselves because they were able to let go of their too biased self-love and sought the perspective of an impartial judge for …
The Hopeful Vision of Saint Augustine and Adam Smith
Kenly Stewart
June 22, 2020 Here I use Tertullian’s formula to ask a different question, “What has Glasgow to do with Hippo?” … produce, not an impossible perfect society, but a society where we have the freedom to choose to be saint or sinner. A society that promises redemption and growth? Sounds hopeful to me. As an Amazon Associate, AdamSmithWorks earns on qualifying purchases.
Adam Smith Helps Andrew Smith Explain Labor Markets
Andrew Smith
June 29, 2023 "It’s Adam Smith’s 'Invisible Hand' at work - by acting to satisfy our own gain, we direct our work that produces the greatest value not just to ourselves, but to society."
Dear Adam Smith: An Antidote To Torpor
Adam Smith
August 25, 2022 Stuck in a rut? Adam Smith advises a restless IT worker to look beyond his screen.
When Can Superiors Act Superior?
Jon Murphy
April 21, 2022 Smith sees the need for such a dual-world given there are times when beneficence may need to be forced to “promot[e] the prosperity of the commonwealth, establish good discipline, and…discourage[e] every sort of vice and impropriety” (pg. … … analysis of Adam Smith deals with the dual worlds of impersonal and personal exchange, the analysis of virtue deals with the dual worlds of jural authority and non-jural authority. What may be appropriate in one context is inappropriate in another.
Adam Smith Wishes You a Mereology Christmas
Graham McAleer
December 16, 2020 Aristotle’s proposition that individuals belong more to the republic than to themselves folds the part (individual) into the whole (polity). This mereology collapsed, argues Strauss, when people adopted the Christian belief in a personal … … bolted on to ancient organicism. I propose that probing thoughts were going on inside Smith’s head when he sat in the pews at Christmas. Related Links: Samuel Fleischacker, Adam Smith on Religion Michael Munger, Division of Labor three-part essay
Bargaining with the Butcher, Baker, and Brewer: A New Look at Smith’s Most Famous Sentences
Jacob Sider Jost
January 17, 2021 Our desire to persuade each other is not reducible to our pursuit of self-interest in a narrow material sense; it is rather a deep feature of human nature, one we share with the men and women whom we rely on for our food. … for economic exchange to self-interest. [iii] See Pierre Force, Self-Interest Before Adam Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 129-30. Related Links: AdamSmithWorks "An Animal That Trades" Video Series Lesson Plan: Trade for the Win
Reflections on Smith’s Sympathy and the Dread of Death
Edward J. Harpham
July 28, 2021 The grave of Adam Smith in Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh. According to Smith, we sympathize not only with living human beings, but also with the dead. But as Professor Harpham of the University of Texas at Dallas explains, we sympathize with …
Smith Snark on François de La Rochefoucauld
John Alcorn
November 22, 2022 The third entry in a new series on Adam Smith getting snarky. We're looking at people and ideas that Adam Smith disagreed with vehemently. John Alcorn invites us to consider Adam Smith contra François de La Rochefoucauld on Sympathy, …
Adam Smith in the Car and in the Classroom
Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith for AdamSmithWorks “Dad, what if there were no money? What if we could have everything we wanted and not have to pay for it?” … of supply and demand, govern those exchanges. The invisible hand envisioned by Smith sees that function as not just guiding simple exchanges, but creating a modern, advanced civilization. What he envisioned in the 1700s still governs our world today.
The Scottish Enlightenment and Smith's Origins
Michael Munger
AdamSmithWorks is delighted to introduce a NEW series of podcasts with Mike Munger in anticipation of the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations. The recording is also available via Munger's podcast, "The Answer is Transaction Costs" [TAITC]. Join us … … that the Scots had ideas about civilization and Smith's ideas were at the forefront of the waves of improved understanding. So now we'll move to the second part of this first episode, which is an overview of the model and approach that Adam Smith takes.
Justice and Exchange in Commercial Society
Michael Munger
The Wealth of Nations. An overview and covering the introduction in Book One. This episode walks through key ideas in Book I, including the famous examples of the pin factory and the woolen coat, used to illustrate the productivity gains from the division … … make the problem even worse. Well, that's what I'm going to cover for the first book. We will take up the next book, book two in September. Thanks for listening. It's been a pleasure to go on this trip through the very first part of the Wealth of Nations.