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Adam Smith Goes to the Dentist
Thoughts from the dentist's chair about pain prevention and cooperation.
Sympathy and Antipathy in the 21st Century
To increase sympathy in our daily lives in the Smithian way we can cultivate the ‘man within the breast’ through education, contemplation and socialization.
Extra: Giandomenica Becchio on Feminist Economics
Feminist economics helps us understand gender inequality. Understanding can help us fight for a better world, but we still have to fight.
David Beito on Rose Lane Says
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 doing so.
Sarah Skwire on Adam Smith and Grief
Adam Smith was a man who read the Stoics. He liked them, too, talking them up in The Theory of Moral Sentiments , particularly in the section on grief. Then he lost two of his closest relations (old timey, right?), David Hume and his mother. These world-shaking events caused him to reevaluate what he said about grief in TMS and change our interpretation of his commentary on grief.