Wealth of Nations

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• Climate Science Uncertainties Identified in 2001

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 441
  EDITOR’S NOTE: Originally published on this blog March 30, 2007, the post below is republished today in light of recent revelations about fraud and conspiracy among research scientists and others whose work formed much of the basis of calls for extreme climate change regulation.“Adam Smith wrote that ‘Science is ...
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• The Puerto Rican Paul Ryan?

  
  The Chief — Authority: 561
  Except Fortuno seems to be actually doing what Paul Ryan keeps talking about ...
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• TWoN Book 4 Chapter 1

  
  Words Words Words — Authority: 119
  Page 326: “That wealth consists in money, or in gold and silver, is a popular notion which naturally arises from the double function of money, as the instrument of commerce, as well as the measure of value.”  In fact, according to Smith, wealth of the individual consists in what can be purchased for money, and ...
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• Afghanistan

  
  The Chief — Authority: 561
  Its pretty hard to disagree with Ben Smith that Peter Orszags presence in this picture is no minor detail...
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• TWoN Book 3 Chapter 1

  
  Words Words Words — Authority: 119
  319: “The great commerce of every civilized society, is that carried between the inhabitants of the town and those of the country.”  Even though this has changed in the sense that this commerce is now a tiny fraction of all commerce, it is still the most fundamental, because without it, nothing else can happen.  ...
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• "Contusion of the Testicle"

  
  The Chief — Authority: 561
  This is why I read New York newspapers .
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• TWoN Book 2 Chapter 5

  
  Words Words Words — Authority: 119
  Capital may be used 1. procuring rude produce, 2. manufacture commodities from rude produce, 3. transporting commodities, or 4. dividing commodities into salable proportions (retail).  Each of  these is necessary for the other, and for society as a whole. Note: Smith does love to divide things up into categories, ...
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• Taxing more than Govt???

  
  The Chief — Authority: 561
  The fucking airline industry .
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• Adam Smith and networked economics

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 541
  This a great post on Adam Smith’s core perspectives , here is a brief excerpt, Our morality is founded on certain truths about human nature. Everyone is capable of sympathy, or fellow-feeling, and that ability enables us to imagine what we would feel if we were in the situation of another and, once we have made ...
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• TWoN Book 2 Chapter 4

  
  Words Words Words — Authority: 119
  This chapter deals with the particular characteristics of stock (capital) when it is lent at interest.  He spends some time explaining why it should be lent to those who will invest it in productive ventures, rather than to those who will spend it; but this part doesn’t interest me a great deal. On page 292 he ...
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• ‘What If’ … Economists were a few hundred years ahead of the game?

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 133
  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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• Context

  
  The Chief — Authority: 561
  A rather interesting op-ed from Steve Jagler in the BizTimes.
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• On Searching Through Cupboards, Undisturbed Since 1998

  
  Adam Smith's Lost Legacy — Authority: 127
  The sort out of my library of books continues. This morning I began on some cupboards in the garage, shut since 1998, when we moved here and I came across some ‘lost’, though not forgotten, books on economic thought, many of which I have kept since the 70s, some of which I have regularly lamented ‘losing’. ...
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• First Wisconsin Bank of 2009 Closes

  
  The Chief — Authority: 561
  Bank of Elmwood goes under , along with six others around the country.
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