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Paul Knowlton
Oct 20, 20234 min read
Cruelty and the Idiot in the Room
Jay Robert (J.B.) Pritzker currently serves as the 43rd governor of the State of Illinois. A businessman before assuming his current...


Paul Knowlton
Oct 6, 20235 min read
No. 1 Adventure of Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator
The tree care company I hired to do a lot of work around my house was almost finished. I watched the climber tie off and make the final...

Shamsa Belgrave
Aug 4, 20234 min read
Self-interest & Social Responsibility
Ms. Shamsa Belgrave is a sophomore at Swarthmore College with a growing awareness that America’s current form of capitalism is damaging...


Shamsa Belgrave
Jul 21, 20234 min read
Self-Interest & Fast Fashion
Ms. Shamsa Belgrave is a sophomore at Swarthmore College with a growing awareness that America’s current form of capitalism is damaging...


Roger Hines
Jun 9, 20234 min read
Can Capitalism Be Improved? - A MDJ Book Review
Roger Hines, the well-known columnist for the popular metro-Atlanta news source MDJ (Marietta Daily Journal) is also a career academic and...

Paul Knowlton
May 19, 20233 min read
Better Capitalism Book Review - Cato Institute
Art Carden is the Margaret Gage Bush Distinguished Professor of Economics at Samford University’s Brock School of Business. He's also a...


Paul Knowlton
Mar 31, 20234 min read
Reinventing Capitalism in Liminal Time
Capitalism is a system we humans created and constantly reinvent. These reinventions unfold in small and subtle steps punctuated every...


Karen Kuykendall
Feb 17, 20234 min read
They Got Game: Stadium Swindles
We've just been through yet another Super Bowl spectacular, and whether you're a diehard fan or casual observer, you can't deny the power...


Aaron Hedges
Jan 6, 20235 min read
Jesus as Behavioral Economist - On Being Better Together
This is the fifth and final post in a series that takes a behavioral economics perspective on Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount. If Jesus...


Paul Knowlton
Nov 11, 20224 min read
Understanding Ayn Rand - Without a Cannibal's Lust
This is the 5th of a 6-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Ayn Rand’s influential Atlas Shrugged, or at least...


Paul Knowlton
Nov 4, 20224 min read
Understanding Ayn Rand - An Evil That Cannot be Tolerated
This is the 4th of a 6-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Ayn Rand’s influential Atlas Shrugged, or at least...


Paul Knowlton
Oct 14, 20223 min read
Understanding Ayn Rand - The Mother of Capitalism
The influence of Ayn Rand’s last novel, Atlas Shrugged (first published in 1957), simply can’t be ignored. Rand called it, particularly...

Aaron Hedges
Jul 29, 20223 min read
In God We Trust - Hebrew Bible and Lenders and Borrowers
This post is the third in a series exploring how the thread of Partnership Economics weaves through the ancient texts of the Hebrew...


Paul Knowlton
Jun 17, 20226 min read
Women's Work and Why Capitalism Needs Feminism
I was born a feminist. Or maybe it’s my social location, watching my immigrant Cuban mother navigate a professional career in America. Or...


Paul Knowlton
May 27, 20225 min read
Understanding Adam Smith - Mutuality
This is the last of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...


Paul Knowlton
May 20, 20224 min read
Understanding Adam Smith - The Fallacy of Laissez-Faire
This is the 7th of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...

Paul Knowlton
May 13, 20224 min read
Understanding Adam Smith - Government + Pursuit of Happiness
This is the 6th of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...

Paul Knowlton
May 6, 20224 min read
Understanding Adam Smith - Giving the Rich a Hand
This is the 5th of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...

Paul Knowlton
Apr 29, 20223 min read
Understanding Adam Smith - Empathy Before It Was Cool
This is the 4th of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...


Paul Knowlton
Apr 22, 20223 min read
Understanding Adam Smith - The Impartial Spectator
This is the 3rd of an eight-part series designed to explain several important aspects of Adam Smith’s writing, or at least correct...
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