69. Adam Smith Part 8; John Locke and the Triumph of Reason
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Completing our Adam Smith arc with the end of the ideology of Calvinism. Its replacement with the idea that God is good and the happines...
13 Aug 202148min
Adam Smith and the Power of Love; Adam Smith Part 7
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Calvinism undermines itself by elevating human reason as the tool for analysis and understanding of God above feeling and love and human ...
30 Jul 202146min
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
