by Bruce | November 4, 2008 | About the Site, Articles
1787: US Constitution, Article I, Section 2: Representatives … shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons,...
by Bruce | November 1, 2008 | About the Site, Articles, Globalization
Sometimes there’s no substitute for being there. This couuld be the introduction to a column about why technology, Web 2.0, and collaboration at a distance all add up to precisely zero threat to places like New York and London–making them, in fact, more...
by Bruce | October 28, 2008 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization
In the nearly five-year history of "Adam Smith, Esq.," you could have counted the number of guest columns on one finger. As of today, make that two. The following comes from E. Leigh Dance (see immediately below), who has a strong perspective on what...
by Bruce | October 23, 2008 | Articles, Finance, Strategy
I am happy to re-publish the press release issued this morning by ThomsonReuters reporting on a new alliance we have struck. For my purposes, the value of this will be being able to offer you, my readers, an additional perspective on legal industry market conditions...
by Bruce | October 22, 2008 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
We are surely living in times of manic-depressive equity and fixed-income markets ("We’ve made the future safe for Western financial institutions!" "No, we haven’t!). New York City itself can seem to be suffering from one gigantic case...
by Bruce | October 18, 2008 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Just Plain Interesting
Not every day do we get a new Nobel Prize winner in Economics, not to mention one whose name, Paul Krugman, might actually be familiar to more Americans than the few of us who are poor closet economists. Krugman is of course not only a Princeton professor (we pause to...
