If you’ve never been to Edinburgh, I highly commend it to you. And that’s not just because of the Adam Smith connections, although that’s what I’ll very briefly mention here.
We’re staying about 200 yards down the Royal Mile from Adam Smith’s new statue, unveiled 4 July 2008, and about 400 yards up from his gravesite in the Canondale Kirk yard. The statue is bronze, 10′ tall, and prominently situated in front of St. Giles church, Behind him is a plough, said to symbolize the impact of his thinking on the eclipse of agrarian economies, and to his right is a beehive, symbolizing, of course, the invisible hand of unguided individual effort creating without a centralized authority something greater than the sum of the individuals alone.
