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FILTER RESULTS ►What did I learn from (another) re-read of Adam Smith?
Here is my MRU video on precisely that topic. By the way, Brandon Dupont has done for us this excellent video on John Law.
Robert Skidelsky Certainly Does Not Think There Is Only a Dime's Worth of Difference Between Cameron and Obama
Robert Skidelsky: >Austere Illusions: The doctrine of imposing present pain for future benefit has a long history – stretching all the way back to Adam Smith and his praise of “parsimony.” It is particularly vociferous in “hard times.”...Show More Summary
Rep. Adam Smith: An Exit Strategy From Detention at Guantanamo
The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay was never a good idea. It is an even worse idea now. Let's start the process to close GTMO now.
Creating Gourmet Space Food With Chef David Chang at NASA’s Space Food Systems Laboratory
Before Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield returned to Earth, Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage, and Will Smith of Tested work with him and chef David Chang to create gourmet space food at the Space Food Systems Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Previously, we wrote about Will Smith and Norman Chan’s visit to the [...]
The Adam Smith segment of the Great Economists course is underway
You will find it here, at MRUniversity.com. We have recorded videos covering, annotating, and explaining every single chapter of Smith’s masterwork Wealth of Nations, along with some coverage of surrounding historical material. Having to explain a book “along the way” is a very interesting way to read, and I was surprised how much Wealth of [...]
Noted for May 20, 2013
Paul Krugman: Financial Repression | Fernando Duarte and Carlo Rosa: Are Stocks Cheap? A Review of the Evidence | Gavin Kennedy: Adam Smith's Lost Legacy: Keynes on Laissez-Faire | Brad DeLong: Notes on Carmen Reinhart and M. Belen Sbrancia: "The Liquidation of Government Debt" | Alan M. Show More Summary
Adam Smith on immigration
UKIP claims that its tax policies are derived from Adam Smith. But what would the great man make of its anti-immigration policies? I suspect the answer is: not much. Now, immigration was not much of an issue in Smith's time...
Eagles RB McCoy Says Allegations Against Him False
LeSean McCoy is adamant that he never assaulted a woman on a party bus back in December and claims his accuser is just trying to shake him down for some cash, TMZ.com reports. McCoy’s lawyer, Andrew M. Smith said, “The allegations against LeSean McCoy are completely, unequivocally false.” Smith continues, “There are no criminal charges [...]
LeSean McCoy Denies Party Bus Allegations -- I'm Being Extorted
LeSean McCoy is adamant... he NEVER assaulted a woman on a party bus back in December -- and claims his accuser is just trying to shake him down for some cash. TMZ spoke with McCoy's lawyer, Andrew M. Smith, who tells us, "The allegations against…
Rep. Adam Smith Lays into Chris Wallace for Obsessing Over Benghazi Talking Points
Click here to view this media I'm not sure what else Rep. Adam Smith expected to hear from host Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday this weekend, since his network has been in full fake Benghazi outrage mode ever since the attacks in Libya,...Show More Summary
Wallace Responds To Dem Rep's Attack On Benghazi Talking Points: 'I'm Not A Potted Plant'
It's clear that Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) had an aggressive strategy for his appearance on "Fox News Sunday" for a segment on the emerging scandal and cover-up surrounding the alteration of talking points for Amb. Susan Rice the week after the deadly terror attacks on Sept. Show More Summary
Rep. Adam Smith: Instead Of Focusing On Who The Bengahzi Extremists Are, Republicans Try To Create Scandal
Congressman Adam Smith said on Fox News Sunday that Republicans are more interested in creating scandal than finding out who was behind the Benghazi attacks: “There was no question this was a it terrorist attack. They didn’t deny it. I would much rather get into investigation of the groups that threatened the U.S., figure out [...]
Congressman Tears Into Fox News Host For Obsessing Over Benghazi Talking Points
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) tore into Fox News’ Chris Wallace and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) for obsessing over the talking points U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used when talking to the media in the days following the attack in Benghazi, Libya rather than focusing on identifying the perpetrators of the killings. “I think [...]
Sad Music Might Not Actually Be Sad [Video]
We're big fans of PBS Idea Channel and Mike Rugnetta, so it was an obvious move to include this week's exploration of the idea that sad music, like, say, Ryan Adams or Elliott Smith, isn't inherently sad. It's kind of complicated, but it basically boils down to our cultural training. At least, that's what Rugnetta and his crew argue. What do you think?
Adam Smith's Theology as Secret Writing
Adam Smith's handling of theological ideas in his books is a good illustration of what Leo Strauss called "the art of secret writing." It also shows the importance of Darwinian science in fulfilling Smith's liberal understanding of social...Show More Summary
Adam Smith on the Public Choice of Foreign Intervention
(May 6, 2013 12:28 PM, by David Henderson) Why the 13 colonies are a net loser for Great Britain: A great empire has been established for the sole purpose of raising up a nation of customers who should be obliged to buy from the shops of our different... (0 COMMENTS)
Robin Lewis: Land of Opportunity to Barren Wasteland, Part 2
Capitalism's founder Adam Smith's "invisible hand" is indeed invisible to most of society. However, that invisible hand now belongs to big business, finance and government -- to whom it is very visible indeed.
"When the mind is employed about a variety of objects it is some how expanded and enlarged."
“When the mind is employed about a variety of objects it is some how expanded and enlarged.” - Adam Smith, 1766
Systemic Risk: When Your Mistake Hurts Me
Adam Smith, the godfather of free-market thinking, once wrote this on the topic of regulating banks: [E]xertions of the natural liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all governments, of the most free as well as of the most despotical. Show More Summary
New York Jets release Tim Tebow
The New York Jets have released quarterback Tim Tebow, a league source confirmed to ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter. Tebow's release was earlier reported by the New York Post. The Jets, who selected quarterback Geno Smith in the second round of the NFL draft, had six quarterbacks on their depth chart before the release of Tebow.
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