Capitalism and Its Critics: A History From the Industrial Revolution to AI, John Cassidy (Farrar Straus, New York: 2025). Cassidy is a British-American financial journalist and a New Yorker staff writer who has published two previous books, “Dot.Con, the greatest story ever sold” (2003) and “How Markets Fail: The logic of economic calamities” (2021). I have read neither of these earlier two books, but it seems a safe assumption that Cassidy has a dominant skeptical gene when it come...| Adam Smith, Esq.
Summer Reading List 2024| Adam Smith, Esq.
The Canongate Kirk, Presbyterian of course, had been a parish church for a century or more when King James VII (and II of England) decreed in 1688 that it should become the Chapel of the Order of the Thistle, to be housed in a new building on the site, which after numerous extensive renovation projects, rebuilding from a fire in 1863, and a “revolutionary” renovation after World War II, is place of simplicity and calm today.| Adam Smith, Esq.
This is one in our occasional series of excerpts from my yet-to-be-published new book, treating, among other things, the historic roots of our profession tracing back to medieval guilds.| Adam Smith, Esq.