by Bruce | December 23, 2004 | About the Site, Articles
"Adam Smith, Esq." was born early last year, and, as the calendar inevitably rolls over, I want to wish each and every reader a Merry Christmas, and the most propitious of New Year’s, reflecting whatever your hearts most desire and your dreams most...
by Bruce | December 21, 2004 | About the Site, Articles
The first day of winter and 13 degrees for my run in Central Park this morning. This expresses it wonderfully:
by Bruce | December 18, 2004 | About the Site, Articles
Yours eyes don’t lie; we have changed the color palette, and sharpened up the top-line banner while we were at it. Although, I personally am fond of the "believing is seeing" formulation—an ironic trope on the surpassing ability of human...
by Bruce | December 17, 2004 | About the Site, Articles
Reader participation alert! The question du jour which I’m posing to all of you, dear readers, is: Should I change the white-text-on-black-background look of the site? Here’s the story: When I first launched "Adam Smith, Esq.," I was...
by Bruce | December 12, 2004 | About the Site, Articles
In case you don’t see Law Technology News regularly, their year-end issue features, at pg. 24 in the "real" issue, my article on "How I Came to (Love) Blogging," thanks to the capable and gentle stewardship of that editorial ball of...
by Bruce | December 9, 2004 | About the Site, Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Just Plain Interesting
Adam Smith’s thought (the real Adam Smith, that is) has been famously characterized by the economist George Stigler as a "stupendous palace erected upon the granite of self-interest." I have long labeled this a "mischaracterization,"...