Category Blog Series: Education as a Public Good

(The Muir portrait, circa 1800, unknown author. Wikimedia Commons) (Above is an audio recording of the blog post) Society for Adam Smith functions like a mirror, and the learning process takes place within it socially, interactively. As he says in The…

(The Muir portrait, circa 1800, unknown author. Wikimedia Commons) (Above is an audio recording of the blog post) The context in which Adam Smith was working is important for understanding his view that ‘every man becomes in some measure a merchant’…

(The Muir portrait, circa 1800, unknown author. Wikimedia Commons) (Above is an audio recording of the blog post) Adam Smith recognized the need for education to play a role in counteracting the degeneration of the worker that would be brought about…

(The Muir portrait, circa 1800, unknown author. Wikimedia Commons) (Above is an audio recording of the blog post) The competitive nature of commercial activity in markets can produce significant material and social advances, bringing about unprecedented enhancements in human life. But…

(The Muir portrait, circa 1800, unknown author. Wikimedia Commons) (Above is an audio recording of the blog post) 2026 will see the 250th anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations (1776). Adam Smith (1723-1790) is a towering…