The Oct. 18 New Yorker has an excellent essay on Adam Smith by Adam Gopnik (behind subscription wall.) Nominally, it is a favorable review of Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life…
I have been musing on Adam Smith, the moral philosopher, for the past few days. As I said yesterday, I find it increasingly difficult to believe ‘an invisible hand’ alludes…
The Oct. 18 New Yorker has an excellent essay on Adam Smith by Adam Gopnik (behind subscription wall.) Nominally, it is a favorable review of Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life…
According to Roman myths, a prophecy that one of his sons would overthrow him inspired Saturn to eat each of his sons at their births – except Zeus whose mother…
As someone identified with indexes his firms created, I’ve never thought it politic to tout someone else’s creation. But, I’ve found one that merits attention. Lara Crigger of the Journal…
Note to self and readers: Remind me when I go off the rails to reread Justin Fox’s fine blog post on The New Republic’s Martin Peretz. After assessing his 36…
This just in: ‘Microlender forecloses on goat’. OK, OK…. But is it any more absurd than US Rep. Darrell Issa’s plan to blame the borrowers for the foreclosure debacle if…
One of the many advantages to living in Cambridge is the Boston Globe’s regular coverage of Errol Morris, the documentary film maker. (The Globe’s parent paper, the New York Times…
More details – deeply disturbing details – dribble out on the foreclosure tsunami. But they’re hard to understand. Arcane acronyms overload the brain. Details — flotsom and jetsom — keep us from…