by Bruce | August 17, 2025 | Articles, Book Reviews, Just Plain Interesting
In keeping with our tradition at Adam Smith, Esq. of publishing a summertime diversion in the form of a selective list of what we’ve been reading lately, herewith the 2025 installment: Fiction, nonfiction, and one millennia-old classic. Our hope is that you might find...
by Bruce | July 27, 2025 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Strategy
A few weeks ago a law land journalist asked us if we had any insights to offer about the above-average rate of expansion of law firms in a particular US metro market—which itself had been expanding at an above-market rate in business investment and population. This...
by Bruce | July 17, 2025 | About the Site, Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Ineffable
Born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, 5 June1732. Died in Edinburgh July 17, 1790 at age 67. Had he lived to today he would have been 293.
by Bruce | June 19, 2025 | Articles, Ineffable
by Bruce | June 10, 2025 | Articles
I don’t know what role, if any, a deity might play in your life, but on my exceptionally short list of immanent beliefs worthy of worship is The Rule of Law: In a nutshell, “no one is above/all are equal before the law.” Its pedigree goes back in human history, way...
