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LUMOS! Learning Moral Sentiments with Harry Potter
June 2, 2021
Jane Austen's Theory of Moral Sentiments: Sense, Sensibility, and Adam Smith
March 15, 2022 Jane Austen isn’t the first name that comes to mind when we think of capitalism, the Industrial Revolution, or the moral side of the pursuit of wealth. But the England in which she lived and wrote her six extraordinary novels was deeply …
Jane Austen's Theory of Moral Sentiments: Pride, Prejudice, and Prudence
March 16, 2022 Jane Austen isn’t the first name that comes to mind when we think of capitalism, the Industrial Revolution, or the moral side of the pursuit of wealth. But the England in which she lived and wrote her six extraordinary novels was deeply …
Jane Austen's Theory of Moral Sentiments: The Failed Speculator in Persuasion
March 17, 2022 Jane Austen isn’t the first name that comes to mind when we think of capitalism, the Industrial Revolution, or the moral side of the pursuit of wealth. But the England in which she lived and wrote her six extraordinary novels was deeply … … Read More? Shannon Chamberlain's Adam Smith Suggests You Read a Romance Novel (And Have a Laugh At Yourself) | Adam Smith Works Brian Murray's Jane Austen's Memorable Con Woman (lawliberty.org) Renee Wilmeth's Adam Smith and Jane Austen | Adam Smith Works
November 17, 2022 The second entry in a new series on Adam Smith getting snarky. We're looking at people and ideas that Adam Smith disagreed with vehemently. What were the issues and did Smith play fair in his criticisms? Our second entry on Epictetus …
Teaching through the Year: Seasonal Readings and Activities
We're making it easy for you to find seasonally relevant ways to bring Adam Smith and his ideas into your classroom.
Extras: Cheryl Miller on Hertog and the Humanities
January 23, 2024 Vander Veer listens in and reminds us that learning is more than schooling. She also offers ideas for keeping it up reading and conversation beyond the classroom.
Alice Temnick on Adam Smith as an Educator
May 3, 2024 What might it have been like to be a student of Adam Smith, and if he hadn't quit teaching, would we have ever gotten The Wealth of Nations? Host Juliette Sellgren explores these questions and more with master teacher Alice Temnick.
Extras: Phil Magness on Academic Integrity
November 27, 2022 J.J. Grandville illustration from Swift's Gulliver's Travels Bad practices and bad practitioners give academia and academics a bad name. It's an old problem, perhaps impossible to solve. But, we can do better. The results, when we don't, …
Clarissa Explains It All: Adam Smith and the Eighteenth-Century Novel in Letters
December 4, 2019 About halfway through his discussion in The Theory of Moral Sentiments about the obligations that parents and children owe each other, Adam Smith makes an astonishing claim: The poets and romance writers, who best paint the refinements and delicacies of …
Gulliver's Travels: Adam Smith's Favorite Novel
October 30, 2019 Adam Smith got his start as a young, aspiring academic by providing instruction in rhetoric to students in an elective lecture course in Edinburgh in 1748. Readers of the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres—which we have only because the handwritten …
The Women of the Smith Questionnaire
March 29, 2022 The Smith Questionnaire is a fun way to learn about Adam Smith and those who study and enjoy him. As Women's History month wraps up, take 5-10 minutes to learn a little more from the women of the Smith Questionnaire.
Adam Smith Knew Why We’d Love Jane Austen
August 31, 2023 "Though Smith died before Austen’s novels were published, his Theory of Moral Sentiments anticipates the reason her books affect us. As Smith says, we take on the feelings we imagine others feel." … Shannon Chamberlain, Jane Austen’s Theory of Moral Sentiments: The Failed Speculator in Persuasion Shannon Chamberlain, Adam Smith Suggests You Read a Romance Novel (and Have a Laugh at Yourself) Sarah Skwire, Sir William Lucas Should Have Read Adam Smith
Smith Snark on François de La Rochefoucauld
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, …
Smith Snark on Bernard Mandeville
November 29, 2022 Adam Smith: Mandeville provocateur. Or was he? Jimena Hurtado looks at what Smith's problem is with private vices and public benefits.
Smithian Imagination and Austen's Catharine or the Bower
April 30, 2024 Adam Smith often used fictional examples to talk about his ideas. Carly Jackson takes his lead using an unfinished work of Jane Austen's juvenilia to help us think about sympathy, fellow-feeling, and imagination gone wrong.
Lovers need Smith's Impartial Spectator too.
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 …
A First Foray with David Hume's History of England
January 3, 2023 An American dips in to David Hume's History of England and comes up with more questions than answers.
The Poor Man's Son According to Adam Smith and Hilary Mantel
January 10, 2023 Many stories from Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments rightfully linger in readers' memories. The poor man's son is one. Eyes are easily blinded by the dazzles of wealth. The spurs of ambition bite deeply into ourselves, friends and …
Adam Smith Suggests You Read a Romance Novel (And Have a Laugh At Yourself)
February 14, 2022 Smith answers in advance a certain criticism that people often start leveling at him around Valentine’s Day: that he thinks love is “ridiculous.” Nope. No more than he finds studies or professions ridiculous. It’s just that they don’t … My husband and I have a tradition of picnicking on Valentine’s Day. It started when we lived in a much warmer climate than we do now, so now that we’re in the mountains of New Mexico, it’s an indoor picnic, often on a blanket in the living room. The …