by Bruce | February 23, 2015 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting, Marketing, Technology strategy
If you haven’t yet heard about Above the Law’s “Converge” conference coming up here in NYC on Wednesday, March 18th, you’re about to. It’s a full-day conference at the marvelous University Club (Fifth @ 54th, McKim, Mead and White,...
by Bruce | February 9, 2015 | About the Site, Articles, Just Plain Interesting
Dear Reader: From my long-time friend Stephen Denyer in London (Head of City and International at The Law Society) comes this: Dear Bruce: Might I take a moment to emphasise how welcome all Adam Smith followers worldwide will be at the Global Law Summit taking place...
by Bruce | October 22, 2014 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting, Strategy
Around this time of year the Nobel Prize in Economics is awarded, and while we don’t always cover it here on Adam Smith, Esq., this year’s is worth a note. As everyone who cares about these things an iota knows by now, the winner was Jean Tirole of...
by Bruce | April 21, 2014 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting
Tom Sargent, a Professor at NYU, won the 2011 Nobel prize in economics (together with Chris Sims) for his work on “rational expectations” theory. Four years before that, he gave a speech to Berkeley undergraduates which reads in its entirety: I remember...
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 4, 2013 | Articles, Ineffable, Just Plain Interesting
Our custom on America’s Independence Day for several years has been to publish a photo of fireworks—the real thing from the annual display over the Hudson River here in little old New York (albeit one year delayed)—but this year we’re deviating from that...
