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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 +

Is What We Do Really So Hard?

by | Jun 9, 2017 | 1 Comment

Much chatter lately has been devoted to, "Whither Uber?" Is its famous unicorn valuation justified and defensible? If it can't, or shouldn't, continue to give its middle finger to regulatory authorities on every major continent, will its growth slow or even reverse?...

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Happy Birthday, Adam Smith!

by | Jun 5, 2017 | 0 Comments

Adam Smith's 294th birthday. An alternate calendar convention puts his birthday on June 16, 1723; the difference has to do with whether you do (June 16) or do not (June 5) adjust his birthday to reconcile it with the adoption of the Gregorian (Continental) calendar in...

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Question of the Month

by | Jun 2, 2017 | 2 Comments

With this column we inaugurate a new and, we hope, long-running feature on Adam Smith, Esq.: A question of the month.  Questions will vary, widely we suspect, and we invite readers' suggestions for suitable future questions.  We prefer them to be--and will strive to...

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Tomorrowland Now Available as an Audiobook

by | May 31, 2017 | 0 Comments

With pleasure I can announce that Tomorrowland: Scenarios for law firms beyond the horizon is now available as an audiobook on Amazon, Audible, and iTunes. For those of you who might appreciate this format, it's a little shy of a seven-hour "read," or rather,...

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