Lost your password?

Blogs about: The Wealth Of Nations

Featured Blog

The Wealth Of Nations, Book 1, Chapter 5, Part 1

erichosemann wrote 1 day ago: Since this chapter is longer than the others, I’m dividing its summary into two separate posts … more →

The Wealth of Nations, Chapter 4

erichosemann wrote 1 week ago: Chapter 4:  Of the Origin and Use of Money 33, 1 The commercial society is based on the exchange of … more →

TWN: Book 1, Chapter 3

erichosemann wrote 1 week ago: Chapter 3  That the Division of Labour is Limited by the Extent of the Market 27, 1 The bigger the m … more →

Tags: Uncategorized

TWN: Book 1 Chapter 2

erichosemann wrote 1 week ago: Chapter 2  Of the Principle Which Gives Occasion to the Division of Labour 22, 1 The division of lab … more →

The Wealth of Nations, Book One, Chapter One

erichosemann wrote 2 weeks ago: Page 9, Chapter 1  The division of labor is responsible for improving labor productivity. 9, 2 Even … more →

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations

erichosemann wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve started reading it.  I will offer summaries of what I’ve read, in installments, her … more →

Wealth...1 comment

cburfield wrote 1 month ago: Where does it come from?  It was the question that motivated Adam Smith when he wrote “The Wea … more →

Tags: Economics, Adam Smith, robert heilbroner, The Worldly Philosopher

China turns to Adam Smith

Ariel Goldring wrote 1 month ago: From the Telegraph: What is more unexpected is that it is China that has an appetite for the father … more →

Tags: News, Economics, capitalism, communism, China, Adam Smith, Shanghai, Marx, Theory of Moral Sentiments

Uthum Herat, Homo economicus la excepción (1957-2009)2 comments

Ajith wrote 2 months ago: Uthum Herat, PhD., Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Sri Lanka is no more. At the relatively young … more →

Tags: Sri Lanka, Ranil, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, inflation in Sri Lanka, Deputy Governor, Ranil Wickremasinghe, monetary board, Janadhipathi Mawatha, Economics

Notes on the Northeast Corrider Redux3 comments

herrdramaturg wrote 2 months ago: Dear Readers, I was water-skiing along Somerville Avenue where the current swings along the hill in … more →

Tags: Recommendations, Inanities, Correspondence, Ulan Blator, Aesthetics, Main Currents of Marxism, stanley richardson, Hegel

The Chaotic solution - A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often5 comments

Vitorino Ramos wrote 2 months ago: “[…] QUESTION_HUMAN > If Control’s control is absolute, why does Control need to control? ANSWER_ … more →

Tags: Books, General, People, Quotes, amplification, bounded rationality, Collective Perception, Control?, Politics

War Games and the End of the World3 comments

nsussmane wrote 3 months ago: In this section of War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel de Landa recounts the role of mode … more →

Tags: Section I, Adam Curtis, Adam Smith, Cold War, Game Theory, John Nash, manuel de landa, Nash equilibrium, Nuclear war

Ayn Rand And The World She Made by Anne C. Heller

mheusler wrote 3 months ago: I think that Atlas Shrugged is one of the greatest stories and political commentaries of all time. I … more →

Tags: Books, Jay-Z, Socialism, Ayn Rand, Anne C Heller, Atlas Shrugged, kyrptonite, Marx, Lenin

Liberty - A Loose Conceptual Cannon in America6 comments

E.L. Beck wrote 3 months ago: The word “liberty” is one of the most used, least understood concepts in the American le … more →

Tags: Politics, Nation, E. L. Beck, Civic duty, Adam Smith, Bill of Rights, Dignity, Liberty, Civic Engagement

MUST-LISTEN: Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse explains basic economics!4 comments

Wintery Knight wrote 4 months ago: Wow, I thought that her earlier podcast on marriage and family was good. This new podcast is a MUST … more →

Tags: Podcasts, Economics, Free Trade, Jennifer Roback Morse, acton institute, Hayek, Trade, Adam Smith, Scarcity

On Listening 2 comments

RMSJr wrote 5 months ago: I am now enrolled in the AudioBookWorm ‘book’ club. This fills in the two hours (and occ … more →

Tags: Reading, on writing, 36.5, writing, freakonomics

How I Became a Communist8 comments

trotskyite wrote 5 months ago: It seems that if you were born before 1990, you were born to one of two worlds, Capitalist and Commu … more →

Tags: capitalism, communism, private property, USSR, Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, Karl Marx, Marxism, Soviet

Self-interest and Butcher's Meat

Sir Emeth Mimetes wrote 6 months ago: “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect out dinner, … more →

Tags: Economics, Adam Smith, free market

Specialization, Rocking Horses, and Free Trade

Sir Emeth Mimetes wrote 6 months ago: Greetings, Imagine that you have two men making rocking horses for a living (this is an example, so … more →

Tags: Economics, free market, Open Borders


Related Tags
All →

Follow this tag via RSS