Jesse Norman on Weber’s ‘Politics as a Vocation’
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The Shirk Ethic: Entering the World of Work
Another Chappist classic. capitalismGustav templesatirethe chapVic Darkwoodwork
Isocracy: The Institutions of Equality
Just published capitalismclassical liberalismequalityIsocracyNicolò Bellancapolitical economy
How Adam Smith would fix capitalism
Jesse Norman in the FT. Look out for the forthcoming symposium on Jesse’s soon-to-be released book in C+T. The real Adam Smith is a vastly wiser and more subtle thinker. He forces us to discard the usual simplistic slogans and tired clichés. But more than this: he still has a vast amount to teach us,…
Adam Smith and the Past, Present, and Future of Liberalism
Matt Ridley in The Journal of Private Enterprise, 32(3): 1-7. Adam SmithcapitalismilliberalismLiberalismmatt ridleyregressive leftSpontaneous orderVernon Smith
Is Technology Killing Capitalism?
Now isn’t this an interesting title? Well, as I discovered a few weeks back when Sam Harris chatted with Eric, EW comes to things with a very provocative, wise, technically sound and cultured background. The cross hair of software . . . pushes private goods into public goods Artificial intelligencecapitalismEconomicsEPISTEMEEric Weinsteinexpertiseinnovationmathematicssam harristechne
Deirdre McCloskey and Don Boudreaux on ‘Bourgeois Equality’
I’m a literary, quantitative, postmodern, free-market, progressive-Episcopalian, Midwestern woman from Boston who was once a man. Not ‘conservative’! I’m a Christian libertarian. That description would flummox the regressives’ crude social ontology and their perversely illiberal hierarchy of victimhood. Anyway, it’s well-worth listening to the very kind and deeply talented Deirdre McCloskey whom I had the good fortune to meet in…
