Cruelty and the Idiot in the Room
Jay Robert (J.B.) Pritzker currently serves as the 43rd governor of the State of Illinois. A businessman before assuming his current...
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Paul Knowlton
- Oct 6, 2023
- 5 min
No. 1 Adventure of Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator
The tree care company I hired to do a lot of work around my house was almost finished. I watched the climber tie off and make the final...
Shamsa Belgrave
- Aug 4, 2023
- 4 min
Self-interest & Social Responsibility
Ms. Shamsa Belgrave is a sophomore at Swarthmore College with a growing awareness that America’s current form of capitalism is damaging...
Shamsa Belgrave
- Jul 21, 2023
- 4 min
Self-Interest & Fast Fashion
Ms. Shamsa Belgrave is a sophomore at Swarthmore College with a growing awareness that America’s current form of capitalism is damaging...
Roger Hines
- Jun 9, 2023
- 4 min
Can Capitalism Be Improved? - A MDJ Book Review
Roger Hines, the well-known columnist for the popular metro-Atlanta news source MDJ (Marietta Daily Journal) is also a career academic and...
Paul Knowlton
- May 19, 2023
- 3 min
Better Capitalism Book Review - Cato Institute
Art Carden is the Margaret Gage Bush Distinguished Professor of Economics at Samford University’s Brock School of Business. He's also a...
Paul Knowlton
- Mar 31, 2023
- 4 min
Reinventing Capitalism in Liminal Time
Capitalism is a system we humans created and constantly reinvent. These reinventions unfold in small and subtle steps punctuated every...
Karen Kuykendall
- Feb 17, 2023
- 4 min
They Got Game: Stadium Swindles
We've just been through yet another Super Bowl spectacular, and whether you're a diehard fan or casual observer, you can't deny the power...
Aaron Hedges
- Jan 6, 2023
- 5 min
Jesus as Behavioral Economist - On Being Better Together
This is the fifth and final post in a series that takes a behavioral economics perspective on Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount. If Jesus...
Paul Knowlton
- Nov 11, 2022
- 4 min
Understanding Ayn Rand - Without a Cannibal's Lust
This is the 5th of a 6-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Ayn Rand’s influential Atlas Shrugged, or at least...
Paul Knowlton
- Nov 4, 2022
- 4 min
Understanding Ayn Rand - An Evil That Cannot be Tolerated
This is the 4th of a 6-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Ayn Rand’s influential Atlas Shrugged, or at least...
Paul Knowlton
- Oct 14, 2022
- 3 min
Understanding Ayn Rand - The Mother of Capitalism
The influence of Ayn Rand’s last novel, Atlas Shrugged (first published in 1957), simply can’t be ignored. Rand called it, particularly...
Aaron Hedges
- Jul 29, 2022
- 3 min
In God We Trust - Hebrew Bible and Lenders and Borrowers
This post is the third in a series exploring how the thread of Partnership Economics weaves through the ancient texts of the Hebrew...
Paul Knowlton
- Jun 17, 2022
- 6 min
Women's Work and Why Capitalism Needs Feminism
I was born a feminist. Or maybe it’s my social location, watching my immigrant Cuban mother navigate a professional career in America. Or...
Paul Knowlton
- May 27, 2022
- 5 min
Understanding Adam Smith - Mutuality
This is the last of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...
Paul Knowlton
- May 20, 2022
- 4 min
Understanding Adam Smith - The Fallacy of Laissez-Faire
This is the 7th of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...
Paul Knowlton
- May 13, 2022
- 4 min
Understanding Adam Smith - Government + Pursuit of Happiness
This is the 6th of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...
Paul Knowlton
- May 6, 2022
- 4 min
Understanding Adam Smith - Giving the Rich a Hand
This is the 5th of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...
Paul Knowlton
- Apr 29, 2022
- 3 min
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 22, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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