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ADAM SMITH'S VIEW OF HISTORY: CONSISTENT OR PARADOXICAL?
Full text linkThe conventional interpretation of Adam Smith is that he is a prophet of commercialism. The liberal capitalist reading of Smith is consistent with the view that history culminates in commercial society. The first part of the article develops this optimistic interpretation of Smith's view of history. Smith implies that commercial society is the end of history because 1) it supplies the ends of nature that he identifies; 2) it is inevitable; and 3) it is permanent. The second part of the article shows that Smith has some dark moments in his writings where he seems to reject completely such teleological notions. In this more civic humanist mood he confesses that commercial society does not supply the ends of nature, nor is it inevitable, nor is it permanent. Both views exist in Smith and the commentator is forced to choose between passages in Smith's work in order to support a particular interpretation of the former's view of history.Political Economy,
Adam Smith on public expenditure and taxation
Full text linkThis paper presents Adam Smith’s view on taxation and public expenditure, by means of an almost literal reading of the Wealth of Nations famous passages on the "duties of the sovereign" and on the "maxims of taxation". Contrarily to the commonest usage of these passages, we will show that their core is the preoccupation with the public expenditure soaring and the defence of decentralisation. Furthermore and also contrarily to the existing interpretations we defend the non-existence of any contradiction between Smith’s income and price theory (and the incidence hypothesis), provided due attention is paid to the guiding role of the "maxims".Adam Smith, taxation, public expenditure
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The Adam Smith Review
No full textAdam Smith’s contribution to economics is well-recognised but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works. The Adam Smith Review is a refereed annual review that provides a unique forum for interdisciplinary debate on all aspects of his Adam Smith’s works, his place in history, and the significance of his writings for the modern world. It is aimed at facilitating debate between scholars working across the humanities and social sciences, thus emulating the transdisciplinary reach of the Enlightenment world which Smith helped to shape.
The fourth volume of the series contains contributions form a multidisciplinary range of specialists, including, Henry C. Clark, Douglas J. Den Uyl, Ryan Patrick Hanley, Neven B. Leddy, David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart, Robert Mankin, Leonidas Montes, James R. Otteson, Andrew S. Skinner, and Gloria Vivenza, who discuss:
the sources and influences of Smith’s work in the classics, the Scottish Enlightenment and eighteenth-century France
the Glasgow Edition of Smith’s Works and the Wealth of Nation
Communicating climate change: James McClintock and Adam Vines
No full textJoin climate change expert James McClintock and celebrated author Adam Vines to a presentation about how to communicate climate change—how to talk about it, integrate it into your artistic practice, how to write grants to get people to fund research, and more. This presentation is the culmination of work the two have been doing with students and faculty this semester, which included videos, presentations, and readings in many FIT courses. McClintock and Vines were brought here as part of a Sustainability Grant awarded to Amy Lemmon, professor, English and Communication Studies, and Arthur Kopelman, Distinguished Service Professor, Science and Math, for their proposal “Communicating Climate Change: Collaboration in the Arts and Sciences.
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Full text linkThe piece consists of an interactive multimedia ‘game’ which requires the player to conceal themselves and remain still and silent to allow a landscape to grow and move. The work was curated for public display in the show The Image Looks Back, at RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, in Spring 2020, as part of the biennale PHOTO2020.
The work was the product of a team comprising Adam Brown, Tabea Iseli and Alan Warburton, and won the 2018 Post-Photography Prototyping Prize, organised by Fotomuseum Winterthur, the Photographers’ Gallery, London and the Julius Baer Foundation. The piece was built in 24 hours, in a ‘hackathon’ involving competing teams selected by a panel of experts. It combined team members’ individual skills in games design, photography and CGI modelling
THE THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF ADAM SMITH'S WORK
Full text linkThe paper will discuss the theological foundation to Smith's writings. Teleology, final causes and divine design were initially seen as central to understanding Smith's writings. Over time, this view fell out of fashion. In the period after World War II, with the rise of positivism, commentators tended to overlook or downplay this interpretation. In the last decade, or so, teleology has started to be restored to its former position as an essential element in understanding Smith. After spelling out Smith's teleology and his view of final causes, divine design and the ends of nature, we try to explain the Panglossian nature of the 'new theistic view' of Smith. While our view differs somewhat, we agree with the essence of the 'new view' claim: a theological view exists in Smith which underpins his moral and economic theories.Political Economy,
Bananas About Brown Dwarfs
No full textThe astroquarks are joined by Dr. Adam Burgasser from the Cool Star Lab at the University of California San Diego to talk about the mysterious members of the astrophysical menagerie that lie between planets and stars. Brown dwarfs are lurking in the dark, sometimes closer than we might think. We also have spaceflight history trivia, 20 new moons, and a spot about G
Adam Sullivan - Brown University
No full textAdam Sullivan is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Brown University. His interests include flipped/blended learning, online learning, open education, R programming and Statistics Education. He is currently director of the Masters program in biostatistics at Brown University and the faculty statistician at the Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute. His interests include statistics education, online/blended learning, and pediatric research. During his time at Brown he has created numerous courses and has won 3 teaching awards for this work. Prior to Brown, Sullivan was a key contributor to the creation of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s first blended course which also integrated biostatistics and epidemiology. He received his PhD in Biostatistics from Harvard University in May 2015, his masters in mathematics from South Dakota State University in 2010 and a bachelors in mathematics and secondary education from Houghton College in 2003. He has worked as an educator in all levels from high-school mathematics to graduate-level biostatistics.https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/ds_symposium_2019_speakers/1009/thumbnail.jp
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The Adam Smith Review
No full textThe Adam Smith Review is a multidiscipinary refereed annual review sponsored by the International Adam Smith Society
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The Adam Smith Review
No full textThe Adam Smith Review is a multidisciplinary refereed annual review that covers all aspects of research relating to Adam Smith, his writings, and his significance for the modern world. It is the only publication of its kind and it aims to facilitate debate between scholars working across the humanities and social sciences.
This first volume contains contributions from a multidisciplinary range of specialists, including Stephen Darwall, Samuel Fleischacker, Willie Henderson, Takashi Negishi, Ian Simpson Ross, Emma Rothschild, Richard B. Sher, Ernst Tugendhat, Gloria Vivenza and Patricia H. Werhane, who discuss such themes as:
- the reception of the Wealth of Nations
- the classics and Adam Smith
- Adam Smith and Kant
- Adam Smith and disequilibrium economic theor
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