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January 1, 2022vernon smith

Happy 95th to Vernon. Adam Smithclassical liberalismecological rationalityexperimental economicsVernon Smith

January 1, 2021vernon smith

Happy birthday Vernon Smith

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November 28, 2017the sensory order

The reissue of TSO edited by Viktor Vanberg (originally Chicago University Press) is about to, for some reason, also be published by Routledge. Here is an excerpt from Viktor’s excellent introduction: Among F. A. Hayek’s numerous publications, The Sensory Order (hereafter TSO) is undoubtedly the most unusual. After all, from someone known as an economist…

November 27, 2017liberalism

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

April 4, 2017vernon smith

What Unites Us

The always interesting Vernon Smith with Peter McLaren. Adam SmithKarl MarxLibertarianismPeter McLarenVernon Smith

December 9, 2016vernon smith

Faith and the Compatibility of Science and Religion

Here’s an interview with Vernon Smith concerning the relationship of science to religion. I had no idea Vernon felt this way until I read his Discovery – A Memoir (which he so kindly sent me a few years back), so this interview is of no surprise. Despite Vernon’s genuine achievements the fashionably atheist philosopher would “cock a snook” at…

August 10, 2016vernon smith

Luck and Learning to Make the Most of It

Here is Vernon Smith on Fortuna. Vernon very kindly wrote the preface to Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith. Some call it luck, others call it Providence, and that points to the mystery of the forces that shape us and that we shape—forces well beyond our comprehension. Adam SmithBehavioral economicsEconomicsfortunaLuckProvidencesituated cognitionTheory…

April 3, 2015adam smith

Smith on Smith

Last but by no means least here is an extract from Vernon’s Smith’s foreword. This book is a welcome addition to the resurgent scholarly and practical interest in Adam Smith’s contributions to market economics and its antecedents in the social order of human culture. In Smith, propriety concerned the rules that govern human sociability by…

January 22, 2014adam smith, vernon smith

Adam Smith: From Propriety and Sentiments to Property and Wealth

Here is a recent freebie written by Vernon Smith who also happens to be writing the Forward to the forthcoming volume Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith. Adam Smithadam smith problemcomplexitypropriety and prosperitySpontaneous orderVernon Smith

August 18, 2013vernon smith

Constructivist and Ecological Rationality in Economics

All those interested in extended mind/externalist/situated type thought should be aware of the field of Behavioral Economics (BE) in general and the work of Vernon Smith in particular. BE is a body of literature that was ploughing this trough some twenty years before the hypothesis of extended cognition took root in cognitive science. It is interesting…