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11/13/2023
Smith’s Man of System in Romeo and Juliet
November 13, 2023
Treating people like plants (or chessmen) doesn't work out and the results can be tragic.
11/1/2023
H.L. Mencken as Impartial Spectator?
November 1, 2023
When it comes to leading a good life, there are guides within us (like our impartial spectators) but there are also past thinkers and writers to help us along the way.
10/31/2023
We sympathize even with the dead
October 31, 2023
One of our long-time contributors let's his imagination roam with some help from a generative art program.
10/25/2023
Great Antidote Extra: Chelsea Follett on Cities that Changed the World
October 25, 2023
Some of the most important progress in human history comes through the solutions to lowly problems: Clean water. Clean air. Clean laundry. Light to see by. Access to fresh food. Humble progress is progress.
10/17/2023
Vocation: A Cure for Burnout
October 17, 2023
Do improvements in artificial intelligence make the remaining work better for humans or worse? Adam Smith and Karl Marx never wrote about AI but they understood plenty about how changes in work could cause torpor and alienation.
10/16/2023
Adam Smith on Taxation
October 16, 2023
Costa Rican economist Thelmo Vargas-Madrigal offers three Adam Smith-inspired public finance lessons for modern day policy-makers.
10/16/2023
Ideas de Adam Smith en Materia Impositiva
October 16, 2023
El economista Thelmo Vargas-Madrigal ofrece tres lecciones de finanzas públicas inspiradas en Adam Smith para los tiempos modernos. (Costa Rican economist Thelmo Vargas-Madrigal offers three Adam Smith-inspired public finance lessons for the modern day.)
10/13/2023
Chelsea Follett on Cities that Changed the World
October 13, 2023
10/5/2023
‘Humiliations Galore’: Adam Smith meets Miracle Max
October 5, 2023
A pivotal scene from
The Princess Bride
illustrates a key Smithian insight.
10/3/2023
The self & sympathy: A brief essay on David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40)
October 3, 2023
Hume’s social psychology undercuts universal moral theories like
Kantianism
and
Utilitarianism.
For Hume, there are circles of moral concerns like family and community and these circles frame and circumscribe morality.
9/29/2023
Pete Boettke on Mainline Economics
9/22/2023
Phil Gramm on How Government Biases Policy Debate
September 22, 2023
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