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Jane Austen's Theory of Moral Sentiments: Sense, Sensibility, and Adam Smith
Shannon Chamberlain
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
Shannon Chamberlain
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
Shannon Chamberlain
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
Shannon Chamberlain
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
Alice Temnick
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
Nancy Vander Veer
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.
Extras: Phil Magness on Academic Integrity
Christy Lynn Horpedahl
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, …
Alice Temnick on Adam Smith as an Educator
Juliette Sellgren and Alice Temnick
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.
Clarissa Explains It All: Adam Smith and the Eighteenth-Century Novel in Letters
Shannon Chamberlain
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
Shannon Chamberlain
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
Christy Lynn Horpedahl
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
Cynthia Argentine and Julianna Argentine
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
Adam Smith and the Creation of Horror in Frankenstein
Shanon FitzGerald
April 7, 2021 What makes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein one of the most effective horror novels of all time? The answer would be incomplete without reference to Adam Smith. … do, don’t lose sight of Adam Smith. Related Links: Shannon Chamberlain, Adam Smith and the Eighteenth Century Novel in Letters Alice Temnick, On Gulliver, Swift, and Adam Smith Lecture by Dr. Caroline Breashears, Adam Smith and the Horror of Frankenstein
On Gulliver, Swift, and Adam Smith
Alice Temnick
July 26, 2020 Part 1 of a #ReadWithMe Series … of Kings and royals? Or of religion, party prejudice, trade, war and more in the progression of these travels? Related Links: Shannon Chamberlain, Gulliver's Travels: Adam Smith's Favorite Novel Alice Temnick with author Leo Damrosch, AMA on The Club
Adam Smith Suggests You Read a Romance Novel (And Have a Laugh At Yourself)
Shannon Chamberlain
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 …
Adam Smith on Women's and Mothers' Roles
Chris Loukas
March 11, 2022 During Women’s History month is a great time to see what Adam Smith thought about women and their role in the family. Although mostly remembered for his work as an economist one can find insights scattered through his works on gender roles. …
Father's Day Advice from Adam Smith
Shannon Chamberlain
June 18, 2022 "[C]ultivating indifference to ourselves and those closest to us causes us not only to fail in our domestic roles in a way that displeases the spectator, but also to lose the ability to feel for the more distant strangers we might come into … It’s almost Father’s Day 2022, which I can tell from the proliferation of spam emails reminding me to buy the paternal figures in my life golf clubs and leather goods. Of course, it’s easy to sneer at the slew of commemoration holidays in the spring and …
The Foundation of Jane Eyre’s Moral Education
Ceanna Daniels
July 28, 2022 How does a child begin a moral education? Daniels suggests Jane Eyre’s reading of history and the Bible give her a good start but much more is required. … of the Old Testament. Want to Read More? Theory of Moral Sentiments Reading Guide for the above quote Shannon Chamberlain's Adam Smith Suggests You Read a Romance Novel (And Have a Laugh At Yourself) Jonathan Jacobs' Adam Smith on Moral Education