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Stairway to Better: Adam Smith as a Guide to the Evolution of Political Order
May 15, 2025 We want to approach Smith’s ideas by engaging in thought-experiments in which we strive to think as Adam Smith thought, rather than to celebrate or castigate this or that sliver of his thinking. But about which aspects of his thought should we think?
Erik Matson on Adam Smith, David Hume, and the New Paternalists
May 10, 2024 What would Adam Smith and David Hume say about mandatory savings accounts or calorie counts on menus? Does their 18th century understanding of rationality have anything in common with today's paternalists?
Great Antidote Extras: Steven Teles on Liberaltarianism
Kevin Lavery for AdamSmithWorks Lavery explains and questions Teles' views on bringing Democratic party liberals and libertarians together over shared values in the broader liberal tradition.
Great Antidote Extras: David Henderson on Robert Solow
Alice Temnick for AdamSmithWorks Temnick ponders how to learn from and teach her students past economists and their ideas.