Adam Smith’s Quiet Christianity — Deidre McCloskey/Adam Smith Understood That We Need Each Other — Vernon Smith/Butchers, Brewers, and Bakers Still Thrive in Urban Marketplaces — M. Nolan Gray/Symposium on Jesse Norman’s Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters/Symposium on Jack Russell Weinstein’s Adam Smith’s Pluralism: Rationality, Education And The Moral Sentiments/Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith
My chum and occasional collaborator, Christian Onof, has his first book coming out next February. This book has been a long time in the making. Christian is as serious a scholar as one can get. Moreover, he is also a top-notch philosopher.
I’ve belatedly learned of Bill’s passing.
Saw her twice in this period. I made chums with Tina’s back up singer from Georgia whom I met in London 1986 (via his girlfriend who’d I met at Chemical Bank in the Strand) and who’d come over with the I+TB supporting the Stones in ’69. (He introduced me to James Brown). I saw Tina front row before she was reintroduced to a mass audience in the mid-80s (actually ’79). We were in the cheap seats and Tina called us upfront to fill the pricey seats (I was there two consecutive nights). The show was as a sharp as it could be — even with 40 year’s hindsight. I still have in my mind’s eye the moves of her backup singers, and the sound and the light show. The guitar (Ike) on “Nutbush” (the recording) still holds water with anything that Zep, Sabbath or Purple guitarists would come up with from 50 years back. Fundamental.
There will be dozens of obits online.
C+T now has a dedicated Twitter account.
An obituary by Steve Ealy/The School of Public Policy/Teaching American History. Gordon was a gentleman and a scholar and was amused by my knowing his birthplace, Mumbles.
Jonathan Rée reviews Bruce Caldwell’s and Hansjoerg Klausinger’s Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950. In case there’s a pay gate, here is a pdf. At the page footer Jonathan Rée discuss this piece with Thomas Jones on the LRB Podcast.
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