64. Adam Smith Pt.3; The Theory of Moral Sentiments; What kind of monkeys are we?
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Why do humans behave decently towards each other? Adam Smith doesn't do evolutionary biology, but his insights, on how we wish to love...
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Adam Smith Part 2; Morality Unlike Ours
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Private Vices are public virtues, so says Mandeville in the Fable of the Bees. No, David Hume argues, the frame is wrong. Strong bounda...
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62. Adam Smith Part 1; Einstein, Newton, God and Poverty
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Adam Smith and his world view. Emerson said every writer needs a tough chaos deep soil. What was Adam Smith’s? We introduce the key e...
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61. 1688 The Glorious Revolution Part 2; Only the Fool is free
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We go through the history of the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Marlborough defects to William of Orange. It’s a long episode because we s...
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1688; The Glorious Revolution; Setting the Table for a Feast
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The real lesson is don’t invade Norway. Northern Europe is suffering from state breakdown or the consolidation of absolute monarchy. Thi...
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59. Stuart Restoration Part 3; To Be a Phoenix; Memetic Disaster
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Memetic Disaster. The Bloody Assizes and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, convincingly play into the memes of Catholic cruelty fit...
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58. Stuart Restoration Part 2, Social and Economic Issues
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We look at changes brought by the Restoration in social and economic terms. And we find there was also a lot of continuation from the Co...
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57. Charles II, Stuart Restoration; They're B-A-A-A-A-CK
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The Stuart Restoration. The landed classes displace the middling sorts of the Cromwellian power structure. This is the first of three e...
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