What’s Natural about Adam Smith’s Natural Liberty?
Abundantly does Adam Smith use “liberty” in The Wealth of Nations (WN).[1] “Liberty” usually means “allowing every man to pursue his own interest his own way” (WN…
Abundantly does Adam Smith use “liberty” in The Wealth of Nations (WN).[1] “Liberty” usually means “allowing every man to pursue his own interest his own way” (WN…
Prior to his death Smith had most of his papers and manuscripts burnt. Apart from his two seminal works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Wealth…
The University of Virginia Center for Politics, led by Larry Sabato, provides polling results that show deep social, political, and psychological divides between Biden voters and Trump…
"We must look at the price system,” wrote Friedrich Hayek, “as . . . a mechanism for communicating information if we want to understand its real function.”…
To understand renovations being made to a building, it is good to understand the kind of order that the renovator hopes to establish. Edmund Burke writes to…
That awful person! How can someone be so corrupt?! Be it Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, or someone else, Adam Smith pointed to an answer: “This self-deceit, this…
My dear George Mason Economics colleague Donald Boudreaux looks back “with enormous gratitude” on his 61 years of life. The expression, he says, “isn’t about his parents.”…
I love to analyze sentiments, sympathies, and virtues. In doing so, it’s useful to distinguish several “b” words. Benevolence on the part of Mary is a sentiment…
What is a luxury face? A London plastic surgeon speaks about the Beautiful Face, a composite of the requests he gets from clients.[1] The chin most desired…