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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics Goes To…..

The Nobel in Econ (a/k/a The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) for 2024 was awarded a few days ago to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT and to James Robinson of the University of Chicago. Here at Adam Smith, Esq., we try to... read more +

Memorial Day

by | May 27, 2018 | 0 Comments

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly.

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The Death of Lockstep?

by | May 7, 2018 | 2 Comments

Last week Jim Stewart of The New York Times published $11 Million a Year for a Law Partner? Bidding War Grows at Top-Tier Firms which was pegged to the news that Sandra Goldstein had left Cravath for Kirkland, and a reported compensation package of $11-million/year...

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The Economics of Kirkland and Cravath

by | Apr 27, 2018 | 2 Comments

The compulsively readable James Stewart of The New York Times, who authors the weekly "Common Sense" column, which ranges widely across the business landscape, just published "$11 Million a  Year for a Law Partner? Bidding War Grows at Top-Tier Firms," which discusses...

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Letter from Latin America

by | Apr 18, 2018 | 0 Comments

April is the cruelest Latin America month. This month has taken and is taking me to Santiago, Chile, Bogota, Colombia, and Sao Paulo, Brazil, traveling with Adam Smith, Esq.’s Director in Latin America, Antonio Leal Holguin. (Antonio splits his time between Santiago...

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