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Adam Smith and Angels with Dirty Faces
Ali Motamedi and Daniel B. Klein for AdamSmithWorks Motamedi and Klein provide a character study of Adam Smith's example of a bigoted Roman Catholic who, overcome by compassion, saves Protestants instead of killing them during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572. Drawing on Smith, the authors suggest that virtue involves a dynamic between self-approbation and upward vitality like that seen in the Roman Catholic who overcomes his bigotry. "...our estimation of a person’s conduct or character involves a consideration of the person’s own self-approbation. When a person does not fully approve of his own good actions, that counts against him." Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Russell Sobel on the Economics of Entrepreneurship
April 26, 2024
Byron Carson on Malaria's Collective Action Problem
April 19, 2024
Great Antidote Extras: David Boaz on Liberalism and the Continuing Progress of the Enlightenment
Janet Bufton for AdamSmithWorks "Materially, people in the United States are much better off. But they’ve also progressed in ways important to liberalism, which stands against racism, sexism, antisemitism, and laws oppressing gay people."
The Great Antidote: James Otteson on What Adam Smith Knew
March 18, 2022