by Bruce | October 11, 2010 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting
The 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science was awarded today to Prof. Peter Diamond of MIT, Prof. Dale Mortensen of Northwestern, and Prof. Christopher Pissarides of the London School of Economics, for their work on–in the broadest sense–markets...
by Bruce | October 18, 2008 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Just Plain Interesting
Not every day do we get a new Nobel Prize winner in Economics, not to mention one whose name, Paul Krugman, might actually be familiar to more Americans than the few of us who are poor closet economists. Krugman is of course not only a Princeton professor (we pause to...
by Bruce | July 18, 2007 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy
My friend Professor William Henderson at Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington just sent word of a new initiative the law school is launching in conjunction with the American Bar Foundation. Called the "Law Firms Working Group," the...
by Bruce | February 1, 2007 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership, Practice Group Management
The College of Law Practice Management was formed over a decade ago to "honor and recognize distinguished law practice management professionals, to set standards of achievement for others in the profession, and to fund and assist projects that enhance the highest...
by Bruce | December 30, 2006 | About the Site, Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Just Plain Interesting
At "Adam Smith, Esq.," we don’t talk about Adam Smith himself very much, but at year-end it seems appropriate to pay a moment’s homage to this site’s intellectual godfather and, I hope, provide those of you who may not have studied him...
by Bruce | December 6, 2006 | About the Site, Articles, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting, Knowledge Management, Technology strategy
As the legal blogosphere goes from childhood to adolescence to (eventually) full-throated adulthood, I’ve enjoyed not just contributing my own small efforts to that process, but also being able to be an armchair observer of other developments having nothing...
