Professor Gavin Kennedy

Of pins and things

Written by | Monday 28 May 2012

Adam Smith’s Wealth Of Nations reference to pin making overshadowed the broader significance of this “trifling manufacture”, which had been “very often taken notice of”.

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If you must quote Adam Smith, first understand him

Written by | Monday 16 January 2012

The author of a blog, Decline of the Logos, has commenced a series of critiques of the Adam Smith Institute. His/Her “No 1” quote is unpromising as to whether he/she understands Adam Smith’s Wealth Of Nations, while quoting from it to find a quote “with “which annoy the Adam Smith Institute”. What an ambition!

Logos’s “no 1” quote is from Wealth Of Nations (WN 1.viii.11-12: 83-84):

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Government in a panic

Written by | Tuesday 3 March 2009

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The value of trust

Written by | Sunday 15 February 2009

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