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Call for papers -- Adam Smith Review on the future of capitalism
  Is there a future for the robust sort of capitalism favoured by Adam Smith or have we reached a limit to Anglo-American capitalism as the engine of human betterment?  Over the last few decades scholars from many points of view have found the basis for a uniquely defensible position in...
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Published 5 months ago

impartiality
For Smith, impartiality is the means by which we come to know and do what's right. Since we all wish to be praiseworthy, we'll at least try for impartiality and so come to do what deserves praise. Here's a key passage on thisThe man who is conscious to himself that he has exactly observed those...
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Published 5 months ago

Smith on the origin of ambition
Reading for my class today, TMS part 1.  The chapter on ambition begins with the lovely passage:It is because mankind are disposed to sympathize with more entirely with our joy than with our sorrow, that we make parade of our riches, and conceal our poverty.  Nothing is so mortifying as to be...
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Published 6 months ago

contest announcement (from SDAE -- Steve Horwitz)
The 2009 FEE Prizes in Austrian Economics The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics is pleased to announce that nominations are now open for the 2009 Foundation for Economic Education Prizes for the best book and the best article recently published in Austrian economics. The...
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Published 6 months ago

back again -- determined to continue (!) and thinking about transparency
On my on again off again issue -- I plead the increased expectations related to being a dean of a School!  I do intend to return to this blog site systematically again.  I'm teaching Competition, Cooperation and Choice this semester and we're reading Smith (Adam - TMS and WoN) and Smith...
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Published 6 months ago

HOPE conference announcement
The annual /History of Political Economy/ Conference -- this year on the topic "Robert Solow and the Development of Growth Economics" -- will be held 25-27 April 2008 at Duke University.  Further information, including the tentative program, can be found on the Duke History of Economy Group...
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Published 2 years ago

Conferences in the History of Economics
3 conference announcements of interest to historians of economics have come in recently: 1  )from Steve Medema) The 40th annual UK History of Economic Thought Conference will be held at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, over 3-5 September, 2008. The conference will retain its traditional...
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Published 2 years ago

Rawls on Robbins
Here's a taste of what David will talk about at the Robbins conference in London.  We've obtained a number of Rawls' copies of books by economists, including Rawls' copy of The Nature and Significance.  So we can see what struck Rawls as he read Robbins. Here, you can see Rawls' exclamation --...
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Published 2 years ago

Nature and Significance: Robbins at 75
The Robbins conference website is now set to go!  http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/lionelrobbins/conferenceprogramme.asp
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Published 2 years ago

Lionel Robbins, Nature and Significance of Economic Science
Readers know that I studied with Sam Hollander.  Perhaps because of this, I have long felt that Sam's teacher, Lionel Robbins, deserves more recognition than he has been given by the profession.  So I am very pleased that N&S is now 75 years old; we can use the occasion to celebrate Robbins and...
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Published 2 years ago