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Adam Smith on the OLL

I would like to put up a link on Adam Smith on the Online Library of Liberty on the External Links, as we have scholarly essays, a timeline, the Glasgow Edition of Adam Smith's Works, The Cannan edition of "The Wealth Of Nations," and John Rae's "Life Of Adam Smith."

The link to all of this is here: http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php&person=44

Android1961 (talk) 19:15, 20 May 2009 (UTC)Andrew[reply]

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Android1961 (talk • contribs) 19:03, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

new external link

How about adding this extenal link to the page http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/exhibitions/smith/ where digitized images of Adam Smith documents will be found LesleyNov5 (talk) 20:31, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Criticism

Reading the critics that some mention form the Austrian School and Chomsky, I think we should start a criticism section. There are just far too many critics against Smith ideas. Don't get me wrong he's one my favorite authors, but there should be room for criticism. For example everyone thinks that he came up with the ideas of pin-making but it's more than certain he copied from an earlier publication. He still has an oustanding explanation of division of labor, but he "plagiarized" it this example. Of course now this is an academic crime, but it was not "required" to quote people at that time. So it's still cool. My economics teacher told me years ago, and I have confirmed it online. "the needle production in Ibn Khaldiin (1402) and Carl (1722-3), the pin production in Carl, Chambers's Cyclopedia(l741). Source: The Economics of Division of Labor from Xenophon to Hayek (1945): A Review of Selected Literature by Guang-Zhen Sun --C9900 (talk) 13:13, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please see WP:CRITICISM and instead try to integrate this information into other sections rather than placing it in a section titled "Criticism". Gary King (talk) 07:18, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

adam Smih

I want to know more about him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.147.232.133 (talk) 23:54, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ok. Protonk (talk) 23:57, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Number one the name was Smith. Generally first names are in caps also. skip sievert (talk) 03:39, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Appearance in games

I am wondering if games that reference Adam Smith should be under Legacy. These include Civilization II (and later), Colonization and derivative works, such as FreeCiv and FreeCol. In Civilization II and FreeCiv, building the Wonder of the World "Adam Smith's Trading Company", allows buildings with an upkeep cost of 1 have their upkeep reduced to 0. In Colonization and FreeCol, getting Adam Smith as a Founding Father (even though he never went to the new world), let's the player build factories. Nutster (talk) 03:10, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

These are insignificant appearances that do not require a mention in the article. Gary King (talk) 07:17, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Supported monopolies?

I reverted this edit for two reasons:

a citation is needed to support a statement which seems unlike Adam Smith.
that section should be written in summary style - it should summarize information in The Wealth of Nations. I see nothing in the main article to support the edit.

If the edit is in fact correct it should first be added to Wealth of Nations (with citation), then added here. Sbowers3 (talk) 13:46, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Korten Reference and NPOV

I'm a bit nervous about the use of David C. Korten's When Corporations Rule the World as a reference in the section on the Wealth of Nations. It looks to me like Korten's book is an anti-capitalist opinion piece rather than a neutral source. For example, the first sentence of his own introduction reads

The global economy has become like a malignant cancer, advancing the colonization of the planet's living spaces for the benefit of powerful corporations and financial institutions.

I'm not making a value judgment about Korten or his book, but rather expressing concern about its use outside a "criticism" section.

--Mike Duskis (talk) 06:13, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's a good catch. There is another problem with those sentences. The section should be a summary of what is written in the main article, The Wealth of Nations. I don't see anything in the Wealth article to support Korten's sentences. E.g. Wealth doesn't mention "concentration", "distort", "fair return", "optimal" or "allocate". My inclination is to delete those (recently added) sentences as non-neutral and not supported by the main article. If they were first added to the main article with good references, then perhaps they could be included in the summary section in this article. What say others? Sbowers3 (talk) 13:37, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Silly Vandalism?

This otherwise excellent distillation of Adam Smith information currently ends with a mention of his ...Having to pay for Parking Tickets. Which I assume to be a short paragraph of vandalism. Should prolly' be removed. Otherwise I thought was a great overview & thanks for all the work folks have done on it. Sincerely, --MBD--71.6.81.62 (talk) 00:52, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Thanks for the catch. Sbowers3 (talk) 19:41, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

wealth of nations

Smith is oft cited, rarely read. I think we need to focus on a few different author's readings of Smith. I'd propose that Jerry Muller's book should at least be mentioned. It has ISBN 978-0-691-00161-6. 0¹⁸ (talk) 17:13, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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This article doesn't contain the word property at all