prior probability

My most recent paper “Adam Smith in the City of Light” (with Alain Alcouffe) was recently published in volume 15 of the Adam Smith Review.

One (“The Social Reckoning“) is about Mark Zuckerberg’s response to a Wall Street Journal investigative report known as the Facebook files; the other (“You Can See Everything“) is about disgraced Theranos founder and convicted felon Elizabeth Holmes.

File under: the history they did not teach me in school.

As you probably have heard by now, last Friday (4 September) the judge presiding over the Lindsay Clancy case in Plymouth, Mass., declared a mistrial after a lone holdout juror had blocked a unanimous verdict after seven days of tense and arduous delibera…

If this haunting track sounds familiar, it’s because it was released by the Swedish artist Kasbo back in 2018.

I began this series of blog posts on 22 August by asking whether Adam Smith was a closet Bayesian.

To my North American readers, Happy Labor Day Weekend!

In my previous post “The Army as Lottery“, we saw how according to Adam Smith in Paragraph 30 of Chapter 10 of Book I of The Wealth of Nations, “romantic hopes” of heroism and glory are what motivate many young men to enlist in the army.

In my previous post, we saw how the direct relationship between youth and risk-taking — the now-commonplace observation that young people are especially vulnerable to wishful thinking and risk-seeking thrills — can be traced back to Book I, Chapter 10 of…