It's the dead of Summer, so time for a🧵on why in Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith does not hold the labor theory of value (LTV). #yeshereistand. 1/

On The Pre-History of State-Capacity Liberalism (Neoliberalism is dead; Long live Neoliberalism!, pt 4.) open.substack.com/pub/digres…

I give you permission to use 'synthetic philosophy' for the right diagram

Substack on the P16 scandal that previews a couple of themes from the book I'm working on. ericwinsberg.substack.com/p/…

I think rensenbrink knows that it was a goalpost that produced an Argentina win

RT @sndurlauf: A typical fascinating post by Eric Schliesser @nescio13. If you are not following him as well as reading is substack, you sh…

Maybe amusing to @Christo66947097 @kvallier @adamgurri @zenahitz

One thing I find fascinating is that the two high profile recent reports (yale and vanderbilt/washu) on the state of trust in elite universities don't rely on nor seem to have comissioned the very best available social science methods.

On Sidgwick's Proto-Kuhnian philosophy of politics, and the origins of analytic philosophy shout out to t open.substack.com/pub/digres…

I never met Gordon Wood, but I have a story about him. In one of my grad school seminars, we read Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The sheer erudition and evidentiary depth of the book bowled me over. Back then, before kids and before life accelerated to warp speed, I used to call my mother every Sunday to catch up. Lots of times, we ended up talking about what I was reading that week in my grad seminars or for leisure. Mom had an omnivorous mind, and she was always looking for something else to read. She was a true intellectual—curious about almost everything, always eager to integrate new arguments or ideas into her existing schemas of how the world worked or to have those schemas challenged and changed. When we talked that particular Sunday, I think I tried to describe to her part of Wood’s argument about the relationship between the state constitutions during the Articles of Confederation era and the federal Constitution. Maybe I was tired, maybe I didn’t completely understand her questions, but the end result of the conversation was that Mom had questions about Wood’s argument that I didn’t answer satisfactorily. I told her that she should probably just read the book, and we said goodbye. She did eventually read the book, but the next Sunday, Mom started our conversation by saying, “Well, I had a lovely conversation with Gordon Wood this week.” For a split second, I thought she was joking, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. I started to sweat. “How?” I asked. A whole variety of unlikely scenarios in which the foremost historian of the American Revolution and my mother, who lived in Wichita, Kansas, might have met ran through my mind. “Oh, I just looked up his office phone number on Brown’s website and called, and he picked up!” Mom said. I decided I would have to find another profession. As it ended up, Gordon Wood spent about an hour on the phone with my mother answering her questions about the Constitution. Ever since, I’ve had a soft spot for the man when I imagine him picking up the phone in Providence and finding Becky Elder from Wichita on the other end of the line. His generosity in that moment spoke very well of him. Rest in peace, professor.

If the claim is that bad scholarship in some fields has eroded faith in those fields & in higher ed, why not study fields that award most BAs: business & health (33% of all BAs). Relatively speaking: few major in the humanities. When is the biz major analysis coming?

On Sidgwick as Critic, and the dynamic Importance of Enthusiasm link in first comment open.substack.com/pub/digres…

@zenahitz maybe amusing

On Matthew Arnold, and his liberal Target (John Bright) open.substack.com/pub/digres…

Adam Smith was born June 5, 1763. Here are some Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility @UCStoneCenter recordings that directly involve Smithian thought In this episode of The Inequality podcast, Eric Schliesser @nescio13 discusses his great book Adam Smith: Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker open.spotify.com/episode/5L2…. Adam Smith plays a prominent role in Darrin McMahon's fascinating Equality-The History of an Elusive idea, which was the subject of a public conversation with Jonathan Levy @_jonlevy, Jenny Trinitapoli, and me, moderated by Scott Ashworth youtube.com/watch?v=Kl_UbjKP…. Smith also plays a prominent role in David Lay Williams terrific The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx, which is the subject of both a podcast open.spotify.com/episode/3wH…. and a public conversation with Chiara Cordelli @chiaracordelli and me, moderated by John McCormick. youtube.com/watch?v=p2xAXHKG… Finally, Smith's thought is an important part of Peter Boettke's @PeterBoettke visions of economics and of liberalism, the subject of this podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/5eG… I recommend his essay Why Read Adam Smith Today? adamsmithworks.org/documents…