It's Pi Day! And in honor of this year's celebration I decided to do a bit of historical research. While π—the ratio between a circle's circumference and its diameter—has long been known and ...

Adam Smith first coined the term "The Invisible Hand" in his important book "The Wealth of Nations." With this term he was trying to capture the idea that the marketplace would be self-regulating. The ...

Review of Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason. By Justin E. Smith. Princeton University Press. 312 pp. $29.95. Centuries ago, the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz declared that ...

Robert Shiller’s Irrational Exuberance is probably one of the best and most important works of the past quarter-century — in economics or in any other field. In contrast I found his new book Animal ...

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*Originally published on October 22, 2019. Roughly half of the anarchist punks I knew in my adolescence are now sincere unironic Trump supporters. - Justin E. H. Smith Justin E. H. Smith couldn't ...