by Bruce | June 5, 2026 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles
Born this day in 1723 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, across the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh. Today he would be 303.
by Bruce | May 27, 2026 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
This is another installment in our series of profiles of leading economists from Capitalism and its Critics. Milton Friedman was born in Brooklyn in 1912 and died in San Francisco in 2006 at age 94. He is known as the primary apostle of monetarism, which is the...
by Bruce | May 25, 2026 | Articles, Ineffable
by Bruce | May 13, 2026 | Articles, Book Reviews, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Continuing our series on prominent economists from the Industrial Revolution to AI, drawing liberally on the impressive accomplishment of John Cassidy’s Capitalism and its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI (John Cassidy, Farrar, Strauss and...
by Bruce | April 30, 2026 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
This is another installment in our series of profiles of leading economists from Capitalism and its Critics. It’s our first profiling not a champion of capitalist progress but a stout opponent. Cassidy opens this, Chapter 3 of his work (“The Logic of the Luddites”)...
