Blessing for the home chef: May the first lid you grab fit the pot on your stove tonight and every night.

What the best book to bring to get picked for jury duty? What's the best book to bring to NOT get picked for jury duty?

What if my next article paper was on the public goods problem of tissue boxes in 3rd grade classrooms?

"But give me holly, bold and jolly, Honest, prickly, shining holly; Pluck me holly leaf and berry For the day when I make merry." From Christina Rossetti's [A rose has thorns as well as honey,]

Plucky > Cheerful

I don't think The Catherine Project is on BlueSky so I'll do my part to recommend them: catherineproject.org For Spring 2025 I'm trying to decide between groups on work by George Eliot, Ken Kesey, Soren Kierkegaard, William Shakespeare, and Virginia Woolf. But there's LOTs more.

Achievement unlocked: Jury duty summons

I'm not a Dickens fan but if you put him with some Adam Smith and David Hume, I'm in. How about you? libertyfund.circle.so/c/timeless-c...

I wrote about why should listen to @sabineec.bsky.social's podcast and maybe, if you want to (but no one is going to force, we're not like that!), read some Shakespeare. Then reread some Shakespeare. And come talk with us about it.

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It's never a bad day to read Adam Smith's crucial two chapters on why so many people go so inordinately far to praise and honor the powerful, but maybe a day of thinking about Kissinger's life, and the commemorations to come, is especially good. knarf.english.upenn.edu/Smith/tms132...

‘Adopt an axolotl’ campaign launches in Mexico to save iconic species

The 100 Greatest BBC Musical Performances. This is an incredible trove of late 20th and early 21st century musical greatness, including performances from Blondie, Dizzy Gillespie, Patti Smith, Daft Punk, Radiohead, Jimi Hendrix, Hole, and Bob Dylan. [kottke.org]

Made a Things They Carried joke at the bookstore today when they were out of bags and the clerk laughed and smiled. Then he gave me free bookmarks. Good times.

Most of the space where we live our lives and make individual and policy decisions involves common-pool resources and ill-defined property rights. Elinor Ostrom helped us understand how we can solve collective action problems in such situations. knowledgeproblem.substack.com/p/governing-...

Really enjoyed this EconTalk with Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman. I learned a lot about Milton and some recent economic history. www.econtalk.org/jennifer-bur...

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate

Taking a page from Carl Sagan (“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe…”), Recursive Recipes lets you replace ingredients in recipes until they are “made truly from scratch”. [kottke.org]

Interested in my research on the motives that lead people to censor? This talk contains a whole lot of my best stuff!

Happy Tear Down ALL the Walls Day to all who celebrate.

The NEH has just announced a major new initiative, "Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence." It specifically focuses on encouraging humanistic research about the potential ethical, legal, cultural, and societal impacts of AI. www.neh.gov/AI

This looks very interesting!

New Ex Urbe Ad Astra episode where @adapalmer.bsky.social and I talk to @rezendi.com exurbe.libsyn.com/ex-urbe-ad-a...

Really enjoyed this Conversations with Tyler interview conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/ada...

economistwritingeveryday.com/2023/09/27/w.... An ongoing project by Jeremy at EWED

Are Americans thriving today? I look into the latest data (spoiler alert: the answer is Yes) https://www.econlib.org/library/columns/y2023/horpedahlthriving.html

One of my favorite podcasts with one of my favorite people talking about one of my favorite novels (that even economists should read). @sabineec.bsky.social www.audacy.com/podcast/the-...

Video now posted: Ryan Griffiths Political Science, McGill University "Adam Smith's 'Coarse Clay' Political Realism" Response and comments by Shal Marriott, Political Science, McGill An RGCS/ Smith Around the World Lecture www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWVq...

My review of The Individualists at The Hub Adam Smith's thoughts on work as a vocation with @christylh.bsky.social and what I've been reading, in case you care. You can find them all here!

Hello, BlueSky! Is work just work? @jbufton.bsky.social and I give our best "what would Adam Smith think" response.