67. Adam Smith and Why the Enlightenment Loved Him
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Adam Smith’s systematic approach made reality tractable. This provided enlightenment thinkers with a framework with which to analyze gov...
16 Jul 202145min
66. Adam Smith Part 5, The Wealth of Nations continued
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. How does opulence among nations arise? Smith describes a Newtonian system of non violent market competition operating through the price ...
2 Jul 202137min
Adam Smith Part 4 The Wealth of Nations -Introduction
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. So how do you get from a subsistence economy where the great mass lives on the edge of famine and disaster? Funny you should ask, becau...
18 Jun 202145min
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...
11 Jun 202140min
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...
4 Jun 202132min
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...
28 Mai 202136min
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...
21 Mai 202147min
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...
14 Mai 202141min
