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Does Adam Smith’s invisible hand = invisible penis? 26 Aug 2013 | 12:29 pm
Probably the most abused slogan from Adam Smith is his “invisible hand.” Even though it appears only three times in his writings, it has made more than one economist drool and not a few theologians se...
The true cause and relief of famines – according to Adam Smith 25 Aug 2013 | 10:33 am
What is the real cause of a famine? A bad season perhaps, or greedy grain speculators. No, for Adam Smith, a famine has never arisen from any other cause but the violence of government attempting, by...
Suspicious of international trade, balance of trade, and manufacturing? Adam Smith was 25 Aug 2013 | 07:58 am
It is probably not known as much as it should be that Adam Smith, the supposed ideologue of free market capitalism, was actually suspicious of foreign trade, especially the carrying trade: The great ...
What do gun lobbies and ale-houses have in common? 25 Aug 2013 | 07:27 am
That spinner of tales, Adam Smith, provides the answer: It is not the multitude of alehouses, to give the most suspicious example, that occasions a general disposition to drunkenness among the common...
Sick of bourgeois democracy? Young people are 24 Aug 2013 | 03:49 pm
The farce that is known as an ‘election campaign’ is still upon us here in Australia. Two weeks to go before we are relieved from the inanities and mindless drivel. However, the most interesting item ...
Adam Smith’s anti-China polemic (some things never change) 24 Aug 2013 | 07:40 am
Ethnocentrism is run of the mill stuff for the classical economists, often in virulent form. China causes them particular headaches, given its wealth, population, and sophistication. Isn’t Western Eur...
Adam Smith on the terrible burden of the cultured intellectual 23 Aug 2013 | 06:13 am
Gotta love Adam Smith, writing as he does from a ruling class perspective. So he writes of the working class man: The torpor of his mind renders him, not only incapable of relishing or bearing a par...
A Malthusian pick-up line 22 Aug 2013 | 08:58 am
The Reverend Thomas Malthus may well have provided the possibility of a new pick-up line. Let’s begin with his two laws of human nature, established by the “Being who first arranged the system of the...
The enlightened John Stuart Mill: on savages and English workers 19 Aug 2013 | 06:33 pm
I must admit, I still don’t get the excitement over the classical economists such as Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, John Stuart Mill. Intelligent they are not; dull ideologues of the rulin...
Nick Cave in paperback: 25% discount 19 Aug 2013 | 05:59 am
Some more shameless self-promotion: Equinox has published the paperback version of my Nick Cave: A Study of Love, Death and Apocalypse. And they are offering a 25% discount. Here’s how: 1. log in her...
