Adam Smith Part 4 The Wealth of Nations -Introduction

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, because Adam Smith desperately wanted this improvement for his native Scotland. Getting it would be like a miracle. He knew the mechanisms that led to prosperity and the obstacles that got in the way. And one day, in France he started a book, An Inquiry into The Nature and Cause...

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1812 The American Distraction

1812 The American Distraction

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The first episode of a mini arc on the War of 1812. This covers origins and how the British got unto a war they had no interest in. The...

1 Okt 202538min

1812 Wellington Salamanca Marmont and Soult

1812 Wellington Salamanca Marmont and Soult

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. 1812 in Iberia was heavily conditioned by the Napoleon's invasion of Russia. 1812 was a major transition year for the war in Iberia. Wel...

17 Sep 202530min

1812 Napoleon Sparks the Russian Revolution

1812 Napoleon Sparks the Russian Revolution

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The world turns on this 1812 campaign and its outcome. We explore more issues, and turning points from the previous episode, some new an...

3 Sep 202523min

1812 Napoleon Invades Russia

1812 Napoleon Invades Russia

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Napoleon never intended to invade as far as Moscow. It was just supposed to be the 2nd Polish campaign. But Napoleon's hammer blows kep...

27 Aug 202542min

1810 1811 Wellington's Defense of Portugal

1810 1811 Wellington's Defense of Portugal

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The 1810 and 1811 campaigns in Iberia were defined by an absence- Napoleon’s absence. Napoleon had won the battle of Wagram in July of 1...

13 Aug 202533min

1809 Thomas Cochrane, Spain and the Basque Roads

1809 Thomas Cochrane, Spain and the Basque Roads

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We cover resistance to the French invasion of Catalonia in 1808. What can a lone frigate do? And then the battle of the Basque Roads (i...

30 Jul 202539min

1809 Wellington and Archduke Charles, again?  Wagram and Talavera

1809 Wellington and Archduke Charles, again? Wagram and Talavera

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The Austrian pro war party is emboldened by the French defeat at Bailen. By April 1809 Archduke Charles is leading the newly reformed Au...

23 Jul 202555min

1808 Talleyrand, Goethe and the Congress of Erfurt

1808 Talleyrand, Goethe and the Congress of Erfurt

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Talleyrand represents a strand of the ancient regime, the old nobility that thrives and leads, right through the monstrosity and glory of...

9 Jul 202534min

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