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Understanding Adam Smith - Empathy Before It Was Cool
This is the 4th of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...
Paul Knowlton
Apr 29, 20223 min read


Understanding Adam Smith - The Impartial Spectator
This is the 3rd of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...
Paul Knowlton
Apr 22, 20223 min read


Understanding Adam Smith - The Invisible Hand
This is the 2nd of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...
Paul Knowlton
Apr 15, 20224 min read


Understanding Adam Smith - I Am Your Father
This is the 1st of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...
Paul Knowlton
Apr 8, 20224 min read


Improving Your Ability to See (Dragons)
In our previous blog post, Your Ability to See, we pointed to a primary danger of being overly attached and even proud of carefully...
Paul Knowlton
Apr 1, 20224 min read


Your Ability to See
You probably have good enough vision, but do you see? Can you really SEE? Let’s explore that question together, in this post and the...
Paul Knowlton
Mar 25, 20224 min read


Our Inescapable Network of Mutuality
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s first great dream for America was for her to eradicate her sin of racial inequality. His daring...
Paul Knowlton
Mar 18, 20223 min read


Of FBUs and Dumb Dolphins
Over the past several decades America has shifted from a market economy to a market society. More specifically, America and we Americans...
Paul Knowlton
Mar 11, 20224 min read


Yoda and You
“Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.” - Yoda Yoda is right, of course, Yoda he is – a standard bearer for luminous beings...
Paul Knowlton
Mar 4, 20223 min read


Your Spiritual Intelligence And Our Next New Normal
The year is 2022. American capitalism and the American workplace are in the throes of a reboot, whether we like it or not. How do we all...
Paul Knowlton
Feb 25, 20224 min read


Ethical Reasoning and Other Blind Spots
Ahead of writing every Partnership Economics blog post we remind ourselves of you, our typical reader. Among other things, we understand...
Paul Knowlton
Feb 18, 20225 min read


Milton Friedman’s Profit Fiction: Part 6
This is the sixth of a six-blog series that simply and in plain language explains the dangerous fallacy of Milton Friedman’s “maximize...
Paul Knowlton
Feb 11, 20224 min read


Milton Friedman’s Profit Fiction: Part 5
This is the fifth of a six-blog series that simply and in plain language explains the dangerous fallacy of Milton Friedman’s “maximize...
Paul Knowlton
Feb 4, 20224 min read


Milton Friedman's Profit Fiction: Part 4
This is the fourth of a six-blog series that simply and in plain language explains the dangerous fallacy of Milton Friedman’s “maximize...
Paul Knowlton
Jan 28, 20225 min read


Milton Friedman’s Profit Fiction: Part 3
This is the third of a six-blog series that simply and in plain language explains the dangerous fallacy of Milton Friedman’s “maximize...
Paul Knowlton
Jan 21, 20223 min read


Milton Friedman’s Profit Fiction: Part 2
This is the second of a six-blog series that simply and in plain language explains the dangerous fallacy of Milton Friedman’s “maximize...
Paul Knowlton
Jan 14, 20224 min read


Milton Friedman’s Profit Fiction: Part 1
This is the first of a six-blog series that simply and in plain language explains the dangerous fallacy of Milton Friedman’s “maximize...
Paul Knowlton
Jan 7, 20223 min read


Nature Abhors a Moral Vacuum
In our post of two weeks ago, From Beneficial Market Economy to Destructive Market Society, we observed that market values have permeated...
Paul Knowlton
Dec 31, 20215 min read


Precarious Christmas
I recently came across a December 2020 article from the Financial Times titled "A Better Form of Capitalism is Possible." The title...
Aaron Hedges
Dec 24, 20213 min read


From Beneficial Market Economy to Destructive Market Society
The philosopher and Harvard professor Michael J. Sandel is no stranger to addressing the moral and civic questions of our time. In a 2012...
Paul Knowlton
Dec 17, 20214 min read
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