I’m reading and reviewing The Wealth of Nations for a senior project. No better place to take notes than one’s blog: Everything in The Wealth of Nations is old. There are no new concepts. Smith talks about equilbrium prices, rationality, and why markets “just work.” What’s so amazing is that this was the genesis of [...]

I’m in the “Friends of Liberty” group at school (no, I didn’t come up with the name) where we discuss…um…liberty, among other things. It’s not so much that I agree with most über-libertarian ideals (or even a majority) but that I enjoy debate. I believe that government intervention can be good, though it usually isn’t. [...]