BREAKING: Real Madrid presidential candidate Enrique Riquelme has released a statement confirming that Jurgen Klopp will be his choice for the manager's job at the Bernabeu if he is elected on Sunday 🚨
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
https://t.co/ofEIpnfQHZ.
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
https://t.co/aFWf9OO4R1.
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
https://t.co/8oLnYTpFF7.
and a public conversation with Chiara Cordelli @chiaracordelli and me, moderated by John McCormick.
https://t.co/tn7OlhaDOW
Finally, Smith's thought is an important part of Peter Boettke's @PeterBoettke visions of economics and of liberalism, the subject of this podcast.
https://t.co/wXVPr4NwXm
I recommend his essay Why Read Adam Smith Today?
https://t.co/5Chz5tfJGI
5 June 1723. Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotlland. He laid the foundations of free market economic theory in 2 classic works: The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations often abbreviated as The Wealth of Nations.
Happy Birthday to Adam Smith (1723–1790), whose insights on moral sentiments, free exchange, and human flourishing still shape conversations about liberty, markets, and society more than two centuries later. 🎉📚 #AdamSmith#OnThisDay https://t.co/TSujX7c9Bh
"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong."
— Prof. Richard Feynman
With the start of the World Cup less than a week away I thought I'd share something a little different for Football Memories - a stamp designed for Royal Mail which was set to go into production when Scotland came home with the trophy in June 1978...
[artist: Barry Wilkinson; source: National Library of Scotland]
Albert Einstein's first-ever question to young Richard Feynman at his research seminar at Princeton about electrodynamics was: "Where is the tea?"
Feynman was happy he could answer at least one of Einstein's questions!
My absolute favourite fact of all time is that Tony Hart was in the Gurkhas.
And if anyone over about 45 says they don't have the gallery music from Take Hart playing in their heads right now then I will call them a bloody liar.
Not a u105 listener, but if I were an advertiser the negative publicity over presenter contracts/staff turnover - in a setting of loyal listeners- would not entice me to spend my radio advertising budget at u105. Slightly baffled what is going on.
U105’s Carolyn Stewart is missing from the airwaves in another high-profile absence from the Belfast-based radio station.
The absence follows confirmation of the departure of five other U105 presenters amid a dispute over their contracts.
Read more: https://t.co/SDjMLHoDw4