by Bruce | June 5, 2017 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles
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)...
by Bruce | November 9, 2016 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles
Adam Smith was living in Edinburgh in October 1777 when a distraught friend brought news of the surrender of British General Burgoyne at Saratoga, exclaiming in the deepest distress that the British Empire was ruined. “There is much ruin in a nation,”...
by Bruce | June 16, 2016 | About the Site, Adam Smith Himself, Articles
Born June 16, 1723, Kirkcauldy, Fyfe, Scotland Today he turns 293.
by Bruce | June 14, 2015 | About the Site, Adam Smith Himself, Articles
Today is Adam Smith’s birthday: 1723, so he would be 292 today. Well, at least we think so. His birth was registered at the church in Kirkcaldy, Scotland (just across the Firth of Forth north of Edinburgh, not 10 miles as the crow flies) on 5 June 1723, so...
by Bruce | September 3, 2013 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Just Plain Interesting
Ronald Coase died Monday in Chicago at 102. The Nobel Laureate in Economics in 1991, his two most famous papers, The Nature of the Firm (1937) and The Problem of Social Cost (1960) began by asking such profoundly simple questions—the word “childlike” is...
by Bruce | July 3, 2013 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Book Reviews
A publishing rite at this time of year is for sites far and wide to offer their own recommended “Best Summer Reading” lists. For all things there’s a first, so here is Adam Smith, Esq.’s First Annual Summer Reading List. (And I reserve the...
