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• Adam Smith on Government Roles

  
  Adam Smith's Lost Legacy — Authority: 129
  By Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala writing (22 November) in Organiser ( HERE ): “ Economy Watch - In defence of regulation of markets” “This veneration of free markets was first propounded by famous economist Adam Smith about 200 years ago. He said that competition in a free market establishes public good as if an ...
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• ‘What If’ … Economists were a few hundred years ahead of the game?

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 127
  The Trinity Science Gallery is just across the street from our offices, proximity, linked with my interest in science (confession: I dropped out of Science in NUIM many years ago before studying business - but as a kid I actually wanted to be a scientist) means that I go there a lot, and they have these great ...
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• Day Tripper – One way ticket yeah

  
  Student Direct — Authority: 146
  After living in Manchester for over two years I’d never been out on a day trip. We talked about going to York, the Peak District or Chester Zoo, but these plans were always postponed and then forgotten. It’s funny then – when I mentioned that I’m terrified of rollercoasters and theme parks – tickets for ...
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• Outsourcing – little tips

  
  Start Up Blog — Authority: 423
  As a follow up to my last post on The White Collar Reality here is a simple Slide Share presentation as a thought starter of why it matters, and what is happening. This is a snippet from the syllabus at Startup School .
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• Adam Smith On Education and the Division of Labour

  
  Adam Smith's Lost Legacy — Authority: 129
  Michael Robbins writes in digital emunction (“ I refer to largesse in thought HERE : “ Best books of the year. A mug, a game. Benjamin Schwarz predictably plumps for biographies & Alice Munro, while Amazon readers appear to be, in Adam Smith’s words, “as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a ...
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• Ascensão e Coma do “liberalismo” – hipótese de investigação

  
  Janela na web — Authority: 107
  O pensamento liberal na economia teve um processo evolutivo que, em muitos aspectos, acompanhou as vagas de globalização. Apesar de não desenvolvermos esse ponto neste texto, as fases do liberalismo económico associaram-se a fases geopolíticas distintas da projecção externa das duas grandes potências ...
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• Self-Interest is Not Selfishness

  
  Adam Smith's Lost Legacy — Authority: 129
  In a post I made on 10 November (see below), Greg Baldwin posted a comment. I would normally just reply to the comment. However, I consider the exchange of wider interest and importance, and to avert it being missed by those who do not search for the rare comments Lost Legacy receives, I post the exchange of ...
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• What Will It Take to Break Our Trance?

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 571
  What Will It Take to Break Our Trance? by Doug Page / November 10th, 2009 We are rapidly returning to the uncivilized Law of the Jungle. We will soon live in a world where brute force rules. It is not only the disabled, widows, children and orphans who are vulnerable to the cruelties of this jungle. We all are . We ...
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• So, You Found a Dead Guy? No What?

  
  The Willinois Nation — Authority: 122
  This is a original comedy video by Keith Hanshaw staring Dana Sink and Adam Smith. See behind the scenes photos at http://swampstudio.com . I found this on YouTube Of course Adam Smith played the dead guy, so I’m not sure he should be listed as “Staring” but that’s just me!
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• Smith on Banking Regulation

  
  Adam Smith's Lost Legacy — Authority: 129
  Dr Hugh Goodacre , a teaching fellow at University College London, writes to the Financial Times (10 November) HERE on the subject of the “arbiter’s” role of the ‘invisible hand’ as presented earlier by Michael Rossman , who “praised” the “invisible hand” as “the arbiter of success and ...
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• Poll shows one-quarter of world disenchanted with capitalism

  
  Laigle's Forum — Authority: 411
  BBC survey shows world disenchanted with capitalism By Don Hank Soon after last year’s disastrous bank crash, liberals and RINOs were quick to infer, from evidence to which only they seemed to be privy, that the capitalist system was flawed and needed regulation. Even conservatives seemed confused. Oddly, no one ...
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• Quote of the Day, Enterprise Edition

  
  Heretical Ideas Blog — Authority: 138
  “Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father’s store or farm.” – C. Wright Mills
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• Whats Really Wrong With the Economy?

  
  Les Enrags.org — Authority: 107
  The Roots of Neo-Conservative Hypocrisy Youve doubtless seen recent headlines showing that unemployment in the US is above 10% officially, higher than its been since 1983. But thats not the whole story . New figures in Fridays jobs report from the Labor Department indicate that the broadest measure of ...
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• Zeus and Gaia, sitting in a tree

  
  dustbury.com — Authority: 594
  And it came to pass that the sons of Britain were persuaded that belief in global climate whatever-the-hell-it’s-doing deserved the same legal status as any other religion , which prompted Smitty to forecast our own eerily-similar future: When coupled with some of the latest nitwittery from the UN on the ...
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• For All Our Tribal Chiefs

  
  ANTIDOTE — Authority: 469
  While looking at our “tribals” revolting, it might be pertinent to point out that the white people also began as tribes. Further, their tribes were never at peace with one another; wars were perpetual. Ancient English kings, who were nothing but warlords, could never defeat the Danes in battle, and it is on record ...
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• Testing on the Great Economists

  
  Risk and Return — Authority: 109
  A little fun. Robert Whaples , an economics professor, has posted a short timed quiz on the contributions of great economists. Okay, maybe only fun for geeks such as myself. I missed the last question, and frankly don’t know a lot about that economists actual work, though I am familiar with his overall view of ...
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• Bodyboard Mag #88

  
  Transitsurf Movement TV DVD Issue #1 Transitsurf — Authority: 123
  Another installment of Bodyboard Mag is now available across europe. Here’s what you can find in the latest issue:-TeahupooAmaurey LavernheLuna Park monster sessionBroken Wings - Adam SmithRiders of North FinistèreHistory of the S.I.C+ much more
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• Too much safety creates victims

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 552
  A lollipop man in Scotland had his lollipop stick confiscated because it was covered in illegal stickers and was a safety issue. The 69-year-old who is working his notice after being ordered to stop giving children sweets and ‘high-fives’ as they cross the road was stunned to have his stick removed by a ...
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• Review: Artistic Home’s “Days to Come”

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 432
  The Artistic Home Shows Weaknesses, Not Strengths, of Days To Come The Artistic Home presents: Days To Come by Lillian Hellman directed by Kathy Scambiatterra thru November 29th ( buy tickets ) Reviewed by Paige Listerud If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man ...
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