Adam Smith’s Home Town
If you’ve never been to Edinburgh, I highly commend it to you. And that’s not just because of the Adam Smith connections, although that’s what I’ll very briefly mention here. We’re staying about 200...
View ArticleEuropean Trip
I got back to New York this past Memorial Day Weekend after my extended European trip. While the trip was even more professionally rewarding and successful than I had hoped–not to mention fascinating...
View ArticleThe “Adam Smith” Award for Innovation in Legal Service Delivery
A couple of weeks ago I learned that the legal department of Kraft Foods issued its “Adam Smith” award, for innovation in the delivery of legal services, to Clifford Chance, and Kraft intends it to be...
View ArticleTwo Books
Today we’re talking about books. Specifically, Robert Frank’s The Darwin Economy and David Rose’s The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior. I believe the first–far better known–is a failure and the...
View ArticleDewey: 1909—??
Two firms have this week received far more press attention than, one suspects, they counted on or quite know how to cope with: Our own industry’s Dewey LeBoeuf, and of course the iconic (good and bad...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Adam Smith
Born June 5, 1723, Kirkcaldy, Scotland. Died July 17, 1790, Edinburgh. Today would be his 289th birthday.
View ArticleHappy 290th Birthday, Adam Smith
Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, June 5, 1723; died in Edinburgh July 17, 1790, at age 67. (There’s some question as to his exact date of birth, but June 5, 1723 was the date his baptism was recorded and it’s...
View ArticleSummer Reading
A publishing rite at this time of year is for sites far and wide to offer their own recommended “Best Summer Reading” lists. For all things there’s a first, so here is Adam Smith, Esq.’s First Annual...
View ArticleRonald Coase, 1910 – 2013
Ronald Coase died Monday in Chicago at 102. The Nobel Laureate in Economics in 1991, his two most famous papers, The Nature of the Firm (1937) and The Problem of Social Cost (1960) began by asking such...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Adam Smith!
Today is Adam Smith’s birthday: 1723, so he would be 292 today. Well, at least we think so. His birth was registered at the church in Kirkcaldy, Scotland (just across the Firth of Forth north of...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Adam Smith!
Born June 16, 1723, Kirkcauldy, Fyfe, Scotland Today he turns 293.
View ArticleAdam Smith on the Colonists’ Victory
Adam Smith was living in Edinburgh in October 1777 when a distraught friend brought news of the surrender of British General Burgoyne at Saratoga, exclaiming in the deepest distress that the British...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Adam Smith!
Adam Smith’s 294th birthday. An alternate calendar convention puts his birthday on June 16, 1723; the difference has to do with whether you do (June 16) or do not (June 5) adjust his birthday to...
View ArticleHappy Independence Day
“You have a republic, if you can keep it.”—reliably attributed to Benjamin Franklin, at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. With that as our text in mind for this parlous and yet...
View ArticleDewey: 1909—??
Two firms have this week received far more press attention than, one suspects, they counted on or quite know how to cope with: Our own industry’s Dewey LeBoeuf, and of course the iconic (good and bad...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Adam Smith
Born June 5, 1723, Kirkcaldy, Scotland. Died July 17, 1790, Edinburgh. Today would be his 289th birthday.
View ArticleHappy 290th Birthday, Adam Smith
Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, June 5, 1723; died in Edinburgh July 17, 1790, at age 67. (There’s some question as to his exact date of birth, but June 5, 1723 was the date his baptism was recorded and it’s...
View ArticleSummer Reading
A publishing rite at this time of year is for sites far and wide to offer their own recommended “Best Summer Reading” lists. For all things there’s a first, so here is Adam Smith, Esq.’s First Annual...
View ArticleRonald Coase, 1910 – 2013
Ronald Coase died Monday in Chicago at 102. The Nobel Laureate in Economics in 1991, his two most famous papers, The Nature of the Firm (1937) and The Problem of Social Cost (1960) began by asking such...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Adam Smith!
Today is Adam Smith’s birthday: 1723, so he would be 292 today. Well, at least we think so. His birth was registered at the church in Kirkcaldy, Scotland (just across the Firth of Forth north of...
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